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What could be the cause of hard, swollen & chronic chest pain following mastectomy & radiotherapy treatments. been on chemo & pain killers still same?
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Idiopathic pain: Hopefully not recurrence. Hard mass on scar? Scar tissue? Neuroma? Painful on palpation, constant, growing, radiating, etc?
Answered 7/6/2017
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