Until then, breast pathology typically involved reading tissue from palpable lumps.

Although both my gynecologist and I discovered a palpable lump in my breast, the mammography report indicated no findings.

Symptoms of this include "currant jelly" stools and a palpable lump in the lower abdomen.

Because there's no palpable lump, she has to do a surgical biopsy in the hospital.

But in women under 50, only 56 percent of palpable malignant lumps can be visualized.

There was no palpable lump, only some irregularities on the mammogram that my radiologist and surgeon caught.

The abnormalities can only be those seen in a mammogram, not physically such as a palpable lump.

The advice about using mammography in the presence of symptoms (such as a palpable lump in the breast) is unchanged.

If that were true, virtually all tumors found years before the stage at which they become palpable lumps in the breast would have already spread.

Years ago it was only diagnosable when there was a palpable lump.