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A close friend of mine of many years recently confided in me that she found a lump in her breast. "Do you think it's anything?"

Well, given that she's 29 years old, healthy, has no family history, blah blah blah, I told her it probably won't amount to anything. Of course, I end that statement by reminding her that I am not her physician, and my recommendation is that she needs to go get this thing looked at and get radiological or pathological proof that this lump is nothing.

So long story short, she finally goes to see a MD and then calls me yesterday with the following news: "There's a bunch of corpus callosum in my breast! What is that?"

"What? Are you sure?"

She responds with insurmountable worry, "The radiologist said there's something that looks like corpus callosum in my breast!"

Me, a bit confused, "Have you seen a surgeon?"

"No. I'm going tomorrow."

Still confused I ask, "You sure he said corpus callosum?"

"Well... He had quite an accent. It sounded something like that."

"I don't know what to tell you. Corpus callosum is tissue that's only found in the brain... What the hell have you been up to?"


So after a bit of investigation, it turns out that she misheard the radiologist due to his accent, and she did not have neural tissue in her breast, but simply fibrous nodules that are similar to a callus. A common finding in young women.