Having core needle biopsy - suspicious for ILC

Amybeth68

I saw my doctor two weeks ago for a feeling of thickness and heaviness in my left breast. I am 47 y/o by the way. He referred me for a diagnostic mammo and US...which I had today. The radiologist did multiple enhanced views and then I went in for my ultrasound. The tech scanned me for quite some time and I had a feeling shekels seeing something because she was marking basically the "coordinates" for the area. The radiologist came in and scanned me then. When he was done he basically told me that my symptoms were presenting as ILC and there was an area he was seeing on urasound...which did not show up on my mammo...that was suspicious for ILC. He actually showed mE IT on ultrasound and it is more of a line that he found. He scheduled me for a core biopsy on Monday. He gave me a BIRAD of 4. Any advice would be appreciate! Extremely worried!

LRGinger

Hi Amybeth - sorry you are going through this. The waiting is the worst! I was in a pretty similar spot. The surgeon and the radiologist were both concerned. In my case, they were unfortunately correct. It's hard not to go crazgogling everything while you're waiting. I used the time to research breast surgeons and oncologists. I hope you don't need either, but there is a lot of great info here about ILC if you do.

614

Dear Amybeth:

Good luck.  The waiting and wondering is the worst part.  Good luck and I am praying for you that it will be benign.