Biopsy detects cancer in Michigan woman after mammogram reports she's cancer free

Terry Gruley has always maintained a healthy lifestyle. Her family even gave her the nickname 'bear' because her diet consists of mostly salmon and berries. “I consider myself to be healthy and health savvy,” she says. She also never misses an annual mammogram or a monthly self-breast exam. And it was during her routine self-check that she felt something. “Not a lump but a firmness in my left breast that just didn’t seem normal to me,” she said. The next day she went into her doctor's office and despite the techs feeling the swelling, the mammogram came back clear. “She told me to come back in six months just to be sure, and I looked at her and asked is that what you would do? And she said oh yes, yes.” Gruley is thankful she did not take that advice. Instead, she went to another doctor who got her in to see a surgical oncologist. After a biopsy and an MRI, she learned that she had stage three lobular cell carcinoma.