This is so important. I do not think any lump should be ignored or "watched." I have seen research and media reports that talk about "unnecessary biopsies."

There are no unnecessary biopsies. There are only biopsies that show a benign growth and biopsies that reveal cancer. There are, however, unnecessary deaths.

This is important to me. My daughters are 26 and 29. Three maternal ancestors now have had breast cancer, one at the age of 36. If mammograms had been around, my mother wouldn't have had one yet. Her mother did not develop breast cancer until she was 85, an age at which some researchers would say "don't do mammograms" -- even though risk increases with age. She was in excellent health until she developed breast cancer, which had spread by the time it was found.

A biopsy is scary but is no medical crisis, and it's far better to know, even when the answer is "Yes, you have breast cancer."