Breast cancer surgery with no visible scar
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Breast cancer
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After years of self-breast exams, Leslie Hollingsworth was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.
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Debbe Geiger
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Leslie Hollingsworth was in her early 20s when her grandmother was first diagnosed with <a href="/treatments/cancer/breast-cancer">breast cancer</a>. Now 50, Hollingsworth has been doing self-breast exams and getting mammograms ever since. Finding breast lumps was a common occurrence because, Hollingsworth has “fibrocystic breast tissue” or, simply put, lumpy, dense breasts.
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“I would check my breasts and become concerned because there was always something there,” she said. Each time she would undergo an ultrasound and possibly a biopsy and be given the all clear.
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Digital mammogram shows irregular mass in dense breast tissue
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In January 2016, Hollingsworth found another lump and made an appointment with Lisa Tolnitch, MD, a Duke breast surgeon whose breast cancer clinic in Raleigh was on...
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