Boobs are scary.

Yesterday I accompanied my mom to the doctor. Earlier in the morning she had had a mammography, and since she had "dense zones", the lab people suggested she'd get a mammary ultrasound.
When I arrived home from school -it must have been 13:30-, she told me about the results and about the mammary ultrasound she'd get at 16:30 that same day. She basically made me feel nervous as hell and she looked as nervous as I had never seen her. Her hands were shaking and all...
To make her feel better (and make myself feel better) I kept telling her during lunch and the 2+ remaining hours that it was nothing, that it must be some weird mass, nothing cancerous, formed after she had breast augmentation surgery a few years back.
We arrived at the doctor's office and sat in the waiting room. All I could think about was: "What if she does have a malignant tumor and how will I react?". Cancer history in her family is not as huge, though her father died of brain cancer and her aunt -I think it was her- died of cancer too. I don't remember what kind.
"Cancer has been 'following' me everywhere lately" (side effect of the Fight Against Cancer Month) I kept thinking. My best friend also got checked up a few days ago because she felt a lump in her breast.
She's fine, it's just a water lump or something like that.
I watched the documentary "Crazy Sexy Cancer" on TV a few days ago as well and realized how real cancer is for every woman in the world (men too but I want to emphasize on women). I know that cancer is a common disease nowadays but I don't know, it just opened my eyes more.
We waited for about 35 minutes and during that time I started filling up a crossword, which made me feel like an ignorant because a didn't know most of the definitions/words.
We finally got called to enter the ultrasound room and the doctor was very funny. I guess he has already built up a funny personality to break the ice, make it easier if he has to tell bad news and of course, he's dealing with boobs, so...
I don't want to go into detail on the whole process but the bottom line is that after about 40 minutes of breast nomenclature explanation and looking at every single detail on the screen, he told us that everything was fine and that it was because of the breast implants that her body had self created tissue and a dense mass around her breast to keep the implant in place and "safe".
I felt extremely relieved, I think I felt more relieved than she did. No, that's impossible but I felt so happy and excited for her and for my family. I can't put it into words.
Then I started wondering about all the women who go into that room and come out with the "other" result. "I do have a malignant tumor, what will I do?".
I hope those women find their way and get through it. Who knows? Maybe I'll be next.