Wow- what a day!

cshamber

My mom had a lumpectomy yesterday for a small invasive breast cancer. When we returned home my sister (she is 44) checked her phone messages and the breast center she went to last week had called. They told her she needs an mri and probably a biopsy for a spot that they are very suspicious about! If she found out she has cancer the day they cut it out of my mother that would be really freaky!!! I can't even imagine how she is feeling right now.

12954

Try as hard as possible not to assume the worst until you have results. Just because they want more tests does not mean she has cancer. There is a good chance that they are just seeing normal fibrocystic changes. Hopefully they will get her tests in soon and you'll get b9 results. It does happen and more often than you'd beleive.

Trish

lvtwoqlt

cshamber, I had my first biopsy for a suspicious mammo at age 44, it was a b-9. Don't worry too much 80 % of the time these thingies are b-9.

Sheila

cshamber

Thanks for the encouragement!

cshamber

Well my sister had her appointment today with her gyno, she told her that an mri guided biopsy was recommended for 2 suspicious areas but she did not feel comfortable with that and wants her to go to a breast surgeon asap. This is all so horrible. My mom just found out a node was involved and her mass is 2.4 cm instead of 1/2 cm, and now my sister. I know there is still a good chance it is b9, but she said her Dr seemed overly concerned. Ughh.... this just sucks.

lvtwoqlt

Cshamber - all my biopsies were done by a surgical oncologist who specalized in breast cancer. It is best going to the breast surgeon for the biopsies because they do more of them than a general gyno who does not do the biopsies as routine.

Sheila

leaf

lvjoqlt is right. I love my gynecologist, but she won't handle any of my breast issues.  (I have LCIS and nothing worse, so that means I'm just at higher risk.) The breast surgeon is the breast diagnostic specialist.

And maybe your sister has a doc who really expresses concern.  Maybe her doc has gone through this and knows what its like.  Some docs really do care.

Its so awful to go through this.  You have a double - whammy. 

cshamber

Well we were at my moms follow up with her breast surgeon and my sister showed him her papers from her Dr (her dr told her to do this). It was so cool he pulled up her mri right there in the exam room! he pulled some strings and she was sent straight upsatirs for a biopsy.(this is womens hospital) She has 2 spots-one they don't think is anything but the other they kept saying looks very suspicious. It was a little disheartening to hear. I know they can still be wrong, but it really seemed like what they were seeing looked like cancer.

They even seemed a little taken back that they would be dx'd at the same time like that. Now we have to wait till next week for the results.

cshamber

Well they told my sister 3 to 5 business days, they called in 2.

Her biopsy was negative, but........ they believe so strongly from what it looked like, that it is cancer -they want it out immediately!!  This is devasting news. Her Dr even said that the radiologist posted a note on her biopsy results that said "isn't this interesting....negative. I say get it out." Her Dr concurs completely. She is so upset, to say the least. My mom has surgery again to remove the rest of her nodes on Friday so she doesn't even know when to schedule her own surgery. She just keeps saying how can this be happening.