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Waiting for biopsy 8/7 and anxious
@adrock73 wrote: I am going to have a biopsy 8-7. Very very scared. One radiologist says it is for sure IDC. How do you manage severe anxiety and constantly worry about this. Can’t sleep can’t work can’t do anything. I am on a tranquilizer but it makes me dopey.
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Nonpalpable Mammographic Findings
From the American College of Radiology "With improved imaging techniques, screening mammograms enable early detection of smaller cancers. Most lesions detected mammographically are benign. Noncalcified lesions of concern on screening mammograms include masses, bilateral masses, focal asymmetries, and architectural…
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"What Should I Ask My Doctor?"
I am hoping to kill more than one bird with this post. Many posts ask this question. "I am going to see the ________ doctor, what questions should I ask?". Many other posts ask ""I am reading the report of my imaging and I don't understand it". Also "These are my results and recommendations should I get a second opinion?"…
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Breast Pain
From the American College of Radiology "The etiology of breast pain is not well understood and is probably multifactorial. Several possible causes have been studied, particularly for cyclical mastalgia, including a disturbance of hypothalamic control, abnormal hormonal response to stimuli, abnormal end-organ sensitivity,…
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How much time the Radiologist spends with you
"But the radiologist was only in the room for a few minutes, how can they make a decision that quickly?" “They hardly looked at the screen! They didn't even examine me" I have heard and read this enough that I feel an explanation is warranted. The veterans here know these facts well enough but there may be some new to…
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Breast Imaging Information / Resources
In addition to the wonderful information available here at BreastCancer.Org, the following sites are recommended by the American College of Radiology for patient information on breast imaging and breast related procedures: Find an accredited breast imaging center or see if your center is accredidted by the ACR: Edited by…
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How to Read a Mammogram Part 2
Since I issued Part 1 of this topic I have seen member's posts where they have drawn conclusions regarding their reports based on only one or two of an abnormality's features listed in the report. There are a finite number of features we look for in mammography and US to evaluate a mass. These include but are not limited…
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Benign and Malignant Causes of Nipple Changes
For those of you who enjoy reading the more lengthy technical articles. This covers many topics related to nipple changes and includes embryology and normal anatomy. It is from the RSNA so it has some emphasis on imaging. It may touch on terms you find in your reports. It is fairly comprehensive. Click Here. Edited by Mods…
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What type of imaging is most accurate?
In my experience, the problems with sensitivity and specificity in breast imaging is that on the spectrum from definitely benign to definitely malignant, there is a broad area of overlap of these findings in the center that could go either way. This is where the value of combining several imaging modalities becomes clear.…
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Common Benign Causes of Breast Pain
Articles dealing with breast pain in patients that have already had a complete workup and breast cancer has been definitively excluded as a cause of the breast pain. 1) A fairly complete non-medical article on the subject: 7 Annoying Causes of Breast Pain and Soreness 2) From ClinicalAdvisor.Com: Managing Breast Pain…
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Paget's Disease and Punch/Wedge Biopsy
As attempting to do some research online, there are not too many resources that discuss paget's. Thus, if anyone is willing to share, I was wondering about experiences regarding it, and particularly how the punch/wedge biopsy is. I am kind of scared of doing the biopsy and I was just wondering how it works, since I…
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Dimpling in left breast at 26, worsened over time, ultrasound scheduled
Hello, Thank you for providing this space. I am 26 years old with no history of trauma or surgery to the breast. I also have no children and have never breastfed. As I am in between insurance during the midst of all this (recently lost my job), I do not have a PCP and paid out of pocket to be seen as soon as possible. The…
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Ultrasound results please help
hello I am 43 years old. I got a mammogram on Monday that didn’t show anything but in the US they found a mass of 1.4 cms. Back in 2020 in the same location they found debris that they classified as benign with a birad score of 2. In 2022 I only did a mammogram that came back negative and now the report shows this : in the…
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Waiting for biopsy results
This discussion was created from comments split from: Waiting for Biopsy Results.
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Pregnant and scared of IBC
A week ago, I noticed an area of redness on my left breast. I've always been really scared of inflammatory breast cancer so I'm hyper aware of breast changes. I'm 18 weeks pregnant so I called my OB to get an appointment to have them look at my breast. They didn't have any openings so they just sent me for an ultrasound.…
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What does this mean? What to expect. BI-RADS 5
LEFT BREAST MAMMOGRAM At the site of the palpable lump at around 11:00 4 cm from the nipple is a spiculated irregular mass containing pleomorphic calcifications. No additional abnormality identified. LEFT BREAST ULTRASOUND: Ultrasound of the entire left breast was performed and demonstrates an antiparallel hypoechoic mass…
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Birads 5- my mom
I joined here several years ago after I had multiple lumps which ultimately revealed adh. I appreciated the level headed support I received while awaiting results during the height of covid chaos. I never dreamt I'd be back looking for support, this time for my dear mom. She went in on Friday for a mammo and us after…
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BI-RADS 4 after being given the clear, feeling scared.
Hi, I’m 36F — I posted here before with a lot of IBC related fears. I have bad health anxiety and everyone here was so kind. I was given the clear by my doctor, but my left breast remained persistently swollen, painful, and red. My doctor told me she felt that this was too ambiguous and we should get an MRI to finalize…
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Birads 4
My 38 year old daughter went for her first mammo (since I had breast cancer they wanted to do one at a younger age) and the mammo.sono came back Birads 4 with a sold nodule and a cyst with debris. How panicked should we be? She has a ultrasound biopsy scheduled for next week.