missdread; I can understand this dread really; because I too have had breast tumors removed. I went through a terrible time from 1993 to about 1997. It started with bleeding through the nipple spontaneously, then the old codger doctor I saw said to forget about it...yah yah, forget about blood all over your bras...later on I got scared and wondered if it was a side effect of medications...I was sent from one specialist to another. I had to suffer through a (ductogram)where they stick a needle in your duct directly, (very painful) pump your duct with stuff to take exrays of your vein system. It was a teaching hospital, and I had a whole bunch of young people standing around examining my breast as I sat in a chair. Then I suffered through surgery of removing certain vein structures, but they did not find any cancer. Then I got extra skin cells growing out of my nipple, and was sent to a plastic surgeon to cut them out. Then they all grew back plus more, and the plastic surgeon sent me to a specialist researcher at the Toronto Women's Hospital where they have discovered many things about breast cancer, especially a discovery of genetic links. First, this research doctor acted like I was making it up, or making it bleed somehow on purpose, and later apologized when they found a tumor right under the nipple, which had grown. Then I went for the third operation, and they took it out partially, and after examining it, they decided it was pre-cancerous and booked me in again to take the whole thing out, including the nipple. Over that number of years, yes, I had reason for anxiety. Since the last operation in 1997 I have had another tumor detected on the other side, but they said after a biopsy that it was not serious, and left it alone. I am living in another country now, so I believe here they don't do anything unless they have to. I was also enroled in some kind of a special research program into my type of tumor, as my grandmothers both had breast cancer. I also suspected that taking medications may have caused abnormal tumors. I was told that I had a special type of tumor that was very rare, and they put me on the research list. (not to mention some other weird diseases that I had that were also rare)...Since then, I have read on the internet that