Topic: can someone please write back lymph node

Can you get another opinion or request a biopsy of the node?  Given your family hx you are allowed to be pro-active and pursue additional testing.  There is nothing wrong with telling the doctor(s) you are fearful to wait a year as this is TOO STRESSFUL for you.  Would they tell their wife or family member to wait a year? 

thank you soooooooo much for writing They told be the lymph node looked fine B9 the 1st mammogram said i had very dense breasts with a nolude with indistinct margins. That's why they wanted more pics. Today they said B9 lymph node. I'm guessing that they see distinct margins now on the U sound. Sometimes I think I look in to things to much. My 2nd cousin deid at 39 because a doc told her that her lump was nothing to worry about (10 years ago) Her Sister told me to get a 2nd op and not to wait 12 months, she's a nurse. So I guess I should go with my gut feelings.Thanks again  Liz

How can you loose, even if for just peace of mind, pushing this issue some more. Many of here have woes to tell of "come back in blah, blah..." just to find out the benign was something else.

I do understand your situation is a bit murky: are you saying the "indistinct bordered mass" on first mammogram turned out to be a lymph node, or that the ultrasound found no "mass" as per mammogram but found a lymph node? Was the lymph node in the area the mammogram mass was or over in the axilla? Maybe you need an MRI given the +mammogram and ultrasound findings?

Either way, no scanning technique is 100% accurate. A biopsy brings you a lot closer to the truth. I'd let your sister help you with this matter if she can. Are you possibly a BRCA (breast cancer gene) carrier, given your family history?

Best,

Tender

Do both!  Get an MRI and get a second opinion.  What will it hurt?  It's potentially your life on the line.  Don't hold back.  You deserve to know for sure.

Good luck!

Lorrie 

Thank you everyone!  My Doctor (OBGY) just called and told me everything looked fine and come back in a year . I said I wasn't ok with a year. He said ok come back in 6 months, I then said what about a biopsied. He said NO that would be way over board!

So now I'm back to feeling like I'm over reacting to this. I wish I could be less wimpy, I was  scared to ask for the biopsied. He has been my Doctor for 23 years I trust him,But reading all these posts from Women who have BC makes me worry. I guess I'll look up a Breast cancer close to me. My Mother went to a teaching hospital for her BC.

I'll pray for all of you!     

I'm waiting now for northwestern hospital in Il to call me back to make an appointment. I heard that is one of the top hospital for BC. My Mom went to Loyola but Her Doctor moved and she doesn't like the one that took her place.

I feel much better just making an appiontment!  I shouldn't care so much about what people think. I'm the one who's life could be on the line. I have to remember that. I have read alot, 80% is B9 and I'll feel so much better with someone else telling me that.

Thanks again to everyone who responded!  My prays are w/you        Liz

.. if the lymph node was enlarged they should take a biopsy of it... I thought that the only way to be sure was to have a biopsy done... am I wrong?  ~ Dee ~

 PS:  I also wanted to mention that when I was diagnosed I didn't have the typical pea sized, hard lump, mine was barely able to be felt, but felt more fatty and soft and my doctor said in all probability that it was a cyst... I had a biopsy and it proved malignant...  "I say err on the side of caution, even if you have to pay for it yourself"...  Good luck...

My first three mammo's got call backs because of a nodule. Turns out it's a lymph node and nothing to worry about. But I did...for the first two years. I saw a bs immediately after my first "go round". I needed reassurance that everything was alright because my mom had just started her battle with bc. Everything checked out fine four years ago and continues to be fine.

Peace of mind is a beautiful thing.