BIRADS 3 & 6mo follow-ups

LittleP3
LittleP3 Member Posts: 3
edited June 2014 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned

Greetings ladies!

You all have been a great source of encouragement & support over the past 2 years, but this marks my 1st official post.

6 months ago I had a bilateral diagnostic mammo.  It came back BIRADS 2 with a 1-year follow-up recommendation. One doc was fine with that, but my onc disagreed & said that a 6 month follow-up was in order because I was less than 2 years out of treatment.

So, I had the 6-month unilateral mammo this week.  This time the report comes back BIRADS 3.

Moving form  BIRADS2 to BIRADS3 is not the direction I want to go!  I have an appt with the PA at my rad onc's office next week.

Question for you ladies -

How often do you have diagnostic mammos?  Anyone else had this experience?

Thanks.

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  • applejax
    applejax Member Posts: 18
    edited February 2011

    Hi little p3 could you tell me what birads mean

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  • LittleP3
    LittleP3 Member Posts: 3
    edited February 2011

    BIRADS is a classification systems used when assessing mammograms.   The range is BIRADS 0 to BIRADS 6.    

    BI-RADS Assessment Categories
    Category 0 Need Additional Imaging Evaluation
    Category 1 Negative
    Category 2 Benign Finding
    Category 3 Probably Benign Finding - Short Interval Follow-Up Suggested
    Category 4 Suspicious Abnormality - Biopsy Should Be Considered
    Category 5 Highly Suggestive of Malignancy - Appropriate Action Should Be Taken

    Category 6 is only used for biopsy-confirmed malignancies.  I had one BIRADS 6 mammo, between placement of a guide wire & being wheeled into surgery a few minutes later.

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  • applejax
    applejax Member Posts: 18
    edited February 2011

    when i had mammo and was diagnosed in nov on left breast the right breast must be a birad 3 because im suppose to go back in 4 months ill be having rads for this breast cancer i wont be to happy if i have to start all over with other breast

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  • Letlet
    Letlet Member Posts: 1,053
    edited February 2011

    Did your report state the reason for the birads 3? Is there an area of concern? Is it on the BC side or the other one? Sorry I can't answer your question, I have to ask my  BS when he wants me to get my next mammo or MRI...

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  • LittleP3
    LittleP3 Member Posts: 3
    edited February 2011

    This was a unilateral mammo, so it was the BC side only.  It doesn't list any area of specific concern.

    I'm just wondering how it could have been a BIRADS 2 & now a BIRADS 3.  Something must look different in there.

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