If there is a lump in your breast, what is the probability of cancer?

Please dont give me a whole bunch of guess, if u dont know anything about this stuff dont post. I want to know what the chance is that its cancer. I don't want advice i want stats thanks.. ^_^

ITS NOT FOR ME
please again dont give advice seriously ok its just research.. for someone else..

Here's a quote that may help you :
"Just because your doctor wants you to have a biopsy does not mean you have breast cancer: 4 of every 5 biopsy results are not cancer. But the only way to know for sure is to take out and test tissue from the suspicious area of the breast."
from the American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten...

Hi there,
Though medically speaking, the probability depends upon so many factors like age, hormone status, parity etc etc...the "stat answer" as you wanted, may be given as....
"the lesser the age, the lesser the chance for a malignancy", though it can be given as a "generalised statement" only. ( exceptions are possible for any rule.)
In younger ages, majority occur due to the fibrous tissue overgrowth....
As the age advances, the probability and possibility for a malignancy increases.....
best wishes....

Eighty percent of lumps are noncancerous. Usually these lumps are a collection of normal or hyperactive breast gland cells or a cyst. However, if you detect a lump, you should see a doctor for a definitive diagnosis.

Cysts are very common and rarely turn into cancers.

Probability is crap. Statistics are meaningless. Statistics are comprised of a bunch of unlucky people and a few lucky ones. Or a bunch of lucky people and a few unlucky ones.

A lump in the breast, if it's cancer, is 100% cancer. If hers is cancer, the odds are 100%. For 4 other women, the odds are 0% that their lump is cancer.

Just after my diagnosis with breast cancer, I took a risk assessment test for breast cancer. It said my odds were 1%. You know what? F*** statistics. Don't play that game. If you have a lump that has been there for more than a few weeks, and you haven't had it examined by a doctor, get it examined. If it's cancer, then they've detected it sooner. If it isn't then no harm, no foul.

I once felt a lump in a former girlfriends breast. I told her she should get it checked out. She didn't, I guess she didn't want advice either. About a year later she had to get a mastectomy.

Go to the american cancer society web site, you will be able to find everything you need.

Go get a biopsy and quit guessing--it could be nothing and it could be something... my wife had a lump and it turned out to be nothing a few months ago..