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Article: Inflammatory breast cancer: Symptoms of this deadly disease differ from what women expect.
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- Stamford Advocate (Stamford, CT)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2006
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Byline: Camilla A. Herrera
Jul. 25--Dawn Colucci was in the middle of a monthly self-examination when she felt a large lump in her left breast.
She called her doctor, and six months after her routine annual mammogram, had another one taken.
"There was nothing there," she recalls during a telephone conversation last week from her office in a Manhattan law firm.
"I could feel it but it didn't show in the X-rays. The lump couldn't be seen."
Diagnosed with a benign infection, Colucci, then 52, was prescribed antibiotics and sent home.
"I took (the antibiotics) for 10 days," she says. "They didn't work."