CancerCompass message board discussion started by s2usy1 on 4/20/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,23246,0.htm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ About a week ago, whilst looking in the mirror, I noticed a very prominent and raised vein, which runs across the top of my nipple.  It looked like a varicose vein, and I started rubbing it and thought no more of it.The next morning when I looked in the mirror, the vien had disappeared, and in its place a blueish red patch was appearing, rather like a bruise.This has gradully grew quite large, and has the appearance of a massive bruise, it has gone typically coloured like a bruise, yellow/blue, purple, and there is now a hard lump developed in the place where the vein was! I can actually pick the lump up in the skin of my breast, i.e. it does not seem to be attached to the breast muscle. II went to the Doctor, and he said it looked like I had had a breast trauma, and the lump was most probably dead tissue or a haematoma. However as my Mum passed away to breast cancer four years ago there is obviously more cause for concern. I am having a mammogram this Thursday and was wondering if anyone else had ever experienced anything like this? I have read a little about fat necrosis following trauma to the breast, and am praying and hoping that this is all it is....P.s. My Mum was 71 when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, and she passed away at 76 s2usy1 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT