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What to tell new employer?
Hi, I just started a new job. I switched jobs JUST for better health insurance. Unfortunately, I went from mammogram to callback to biopsy, and now I'm due for an excisional biopsy, then the wait for results. I don't know what to say to my employer, it'll be day 5 on the job, and the surgery is scheduled for the whole day,…
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Core needle biopsies vs fine needle aspiration and BIRAD 4A
Hi friends! Have any of you had imagings of complex breasts cysts that said BIRADS 4A, only for a biopsy to prove it actually was cancer? Which type of biopsy did you habe
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Please share your experience. I’m terrified, but calm
Good morning. I go in today for my diagnostic 3D mammogram and ultrasound for this lump in the 7:00 - 8:00 subareolar area in my right breast. Did/does anyone else have a lump in this area? Did it end up just being a fibroadenoma? Fingers crossed due to it being in the lower outer quadrant. Thank you, friends!
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The endless wait: MRI last week, US/biopsy tomorrow
Hey everyone. I had a breast mri on Friday(w and w/o contrast) and have an ultrasound guided biopsy schedule on Monday at the hospital. Waiting for "MRI day" was hard but waiting for the results is so much harder! This feels like the longest weekend ever. Sigh Let me back up and give some background. I'm 38 and just before…
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Linear non mass enhancement MRI results
A little over a month ago, I thought I had a breast infection. I scheduled an appointment with my breast specialist. Before the appointment, my left breast and left arm swelled significantly. Still swollen but not as bad. After a clear ultrasound and mammogram, I was scheduled for an MRI. Received results on Sept 29. Don't…
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BI-RADS 5 and biopsy yesterday
It is looking very likely that I have breast cancer. I am 41. I had a routine screening mammogram two weeks ago, which I've done for several years due to having cystic breasts. I received a call asking me to come back in for further imaging. I thought nothing of it as I'd received the same call a few years ago, and it was…
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Waiting on Results after Biopsy
Good afternoon! I came across this site as I was researching some things. For a little background, I am 34 years old. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 54. My journey to where I am started back in April when I noticed a swollen area in my left armpit along with sensitivity and some pain. Because of my…
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Can't believe I'm back here again
Hello all! It's been a long time since I've been active on here, but after nearly a full five years since I started this ride, I find myself back in limbo once again. So, brief catch-up - you can see from my signature what happened with me previously, and I'm happy to say that, since finishing treatment in the summer of…
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BI-RADS 0: Incomplete- Should I be worried?
Just got my mammogram results today and it's BI-RADS Final Assessment Category 0: Incomplete-Need Additional Imaging Evaluation. Kind of worried now! They have me scheduled for a follow-up mammogram for Thursday. BREAST DENSITY: B-The breasts demonstrate scattered fibroglandular densities. Left breast: There are…
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Lump and indentation- negative mammogram
Hi all, I really hope I can get some answers. I’m 40 yrs old with no history of any breast conditions. About two months ago I noticed a dark spot on my left breast as I was getting in the shower. I was running late so I put it out of my mind until another couple weeks had passed and I noticed it again. Once I looked again…
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Back on the roller coaster
Hey all, I am back again. I had my annual mammogram in August 2021. I had to go back for a diagnostic mammogram for microcalcifications in right breast outer quadrant and radiology said she really thought it to be benign, so said come back in 6 months. I went for repeat diagnostic mammogram on February 2022 and there were…
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Tumor Markers Crazy
Does anyone know how reliable tumor marker tests are? I am a nine year survivor and my oncologists is having me get a endoscopic ultrasound so they can take samples of some swollen lymph nodes near my liver for a biopsy. Today they did blood work for tumor markers and two results CEA and AFP tumor markers came back normal…
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Waiting for the biopsy results.
Hello, I am new here. I had an abnormal mammogram (spiculated spot) and ultrasound so far. I also had a biopsy on Monday. The results are not back yet. However the surgeon called the pathologist and got the preliminary results: IDC, grade 2-3 (no molecular profile yet -ER?PR?HER?). I am thinking about having a mastectomy…
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Waiting on biopsy
I am a 47 year old mom of 4. I recently had my routine 3-D mammogram and was called back for further testing on my left breast. I wasn't too worried because I was called back last year for the right one. Last year, I had an ultra sound and no further tests were needed.. Fast forward to this year and the other breast...they…
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Biopsy in Two Days . . .Terrified
Like everyone else here, I wish I didn’t have to make this post. I am 45F, and had a screening mammogram a couple of weeks ago, on 7/20. Like an idiot, I hadn’t gone since 2019 - the pandemic, and then I just kept putting it off. I got a call-back and they ordered an ultrasound. In the past, it has always ended up being…
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Awaiting Results of Breast MRI Biopsy
I am absolutely terrified and in a bad mental state. I was found to have a linear non-mass enhancement of 0.8 cm on Breast MRI with rapid plateau kinetics. I then had a biopsy for which I amcurrently waiting on the result. My symptoms have been skin discoloration, itching, and pain. For this reason, I am terrified this is…
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Birads 4b
hi everyone, I noticed a new lump in my upper right quadrant/close to the chest. It was tender and mobile and I noticed it same day as mt period so assumed a cyst but on US tuned out to be a birads 4b. I am 36 with three small babies and am so so anxious. Any one have similar results and a good outcome? Thanks
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Disappearing lesion?
Hello everyone. I'm a 32 year old who is currently going through testing. In May during a breast ultrasound they found a 3x2cm mass in my left breast. I was labeled Bi-RADS 4 and referred for urgent mammogram & repeat ultrasound. I had these tests done 5 days later. The mammogram didn't locate anything due to extremely…
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Clear breast discharge that led to sono
I feel so stupid. After 3 years, I weaned my son but having had oversupply and overactive let down, I never worried that my breasts continued to drip very slightly, even when it became clear and only one side. This went on for at least a year before I read a pamphlet that alarmed me. Unilateral, spontaneous, clear…
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More imaging...more waiting....
Just got back from my appointment at SCCA. Loved the dr. I was given. She took the time to listen to my concerns, understood my frustrations with the last mammo/ultrasound, and didnt once say "you are too young for cancer". My story in short: Found a lump way up high on my pectoral muscle a few months ago. Primary care Dr…
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Waiting for biopsy
Hi Everyone, My name is Amy, 40 years old, mother of 3 sons and 3 bonus kids. I am here because I am in the long 3 week wait for biopsies and I am not sure what to do with myself. I was hoping to tell my story, if others have had similar and how it worked out for them, or just read and gain information for whatever is…
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This wild Ultrasound Experience as I wait for Biopsy Thursday
A few years back (like probably at least 5) I was called back for a follow up mammo and U/S. Was told basically not to worry, but if i wanted a biopsy I could have one. (Radiologist was awesome, and showed me on his computer the area, how it hadn't moved or changed in three years, hadn't vascularized. He was wonderful. )…
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Birads 4a-STEREOTACTIC BREAST BIOPSY
I spent 27 days reading all of the posts on here over and over during my wait but never had the courage to post during that ordeal. I decided I needed to post my experience because I gained so much info from others and every time I read a post that seemed to fit my situation, it helped. I would be so disappointed though…
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Last biopsy result finally
Today I received my last biopsy results. All three biopsies came back benign. Fantastic news! Boy, that took what seemed like an eternity. I have to do my right mastectomy again for the incorrect pathology results and that the mastectomy was not a complete mastectomy that left behind residual tissue. Due to the additional…
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Biopsy Scheduled for Monday
I hate that this is my first post here. But I have biopsies in both breasts (mammogram guided on the left, ultrasound guided on the right) scheduled for this coming Monday. I knew the right wasn’t looking good - 1.2cm mass, with spiculation to 6cm. But they had trouble locating the mass on the left with the ultrasound. So…
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One down, one to go
Hi everyone. Little background I went for my first mammogram and they found an asymmetry on the right breast that could not be seen well on u/s and one on the left that they classified as a mass that is non-circumscribed and hypoechoic and determined both needed a biopsy. I was given a Birads 4. I had the right side done…
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22 Year DCIS Survivor -New Lump-Biopsy Tuesday
Hi! I was here over a year ago when I went for a biopsy due to something found on ultrasound. Luckily it turned out to be PASH. This year mammogram found focal assynetery and went back for diagnostic and ultrasound on same breast that I had my lumpectomy. I could feel the thickening prior to the ultrasound once I checked.…
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Couldn’t find lump on ultrasound
Hello all, I am 38 years old. I went for a mammogram about 10 days ago (due to pain in right side). The mammogram detected a 2.3 cm mass on the left side that the doctor wanted confirmed as cystic or solid. I went to my ultrasound today and the tech took some pictures but then said she couldn't find anything of that large…
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Feeling foolish and waiting for biopsy
Despite being 39 w/ 0 history of breast cancer in my family I went in for my 5th mammogram and ultrasound in 5 years on Monday. Little background - I started finding so many lumps that instead of continuing to go in for tests all the time I was referred to a breast specialist who was basically like "Hey, learn what normal…
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ABUS callback and panicking (again)
I’m hoping I can get some support again this go around from all of you wonderful ladies!! I am a 40F and I posted in here last year when I had my first ever Mammogram a couple months before I was to get married. They found a mass that required repeat testing and eventually a core biopsy. I ended up with 4 mammos, 3 HHUS…