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Byline: Rebecca Johnson
It began with a small, hard ball under the skin of her left breast. "It felt like a frozen pea," says Eli Selden. She pointed it out to her gynecologist during a routine exam. The doctor felt it, reassured her that it was probably nothing, but noted that since Selden, then 43, was due for her yearly mammogram soon anyway, why not move it up a few months?
Her doctor was right. The frozen pea was nothing, just a small mass of calcified tissue, a common and typically harmless condition. But Selden is convinced it was her fears about the pea that made the mammographer look more closely at the film, which revealed a barely discernible ...