B4 biopsy score

Shelbybelbyboo

Good evening all,

As I am waiting for more tests after a BIRADS 0 score I went and retrieved all my reports from the last year of images, biopsies, and pathology reports.

I looked over my one pathology report and although benign I wondered what the B4 meant on the bottom of the surgical pathology report.

When I had a biopsy of a different area and was diagnosed with RS the biopsy read a B3.

I tried looking up some literature on this topic and all I found was B3 meant a lesion of uncertain potential or "borderline" lesion but i could not find much on a B4. It also stated that B2 meant benign normal tissue and B5 meant malignant. Can anyone help to clarify this?

blah333

with breasts BIRADS 4 is suspicious of malignancy and requires a biopsy. BIRADS 3 is suspicious but probably benign. So if you had a biopsy, they probably gave you the "B4" rating so they could justify the biopsy which would confirm whether or not the suspicion was malignant or not. I have not seen it abbreviated that way before though. Ask your radiologist when you get your new test results.

Shelbybelbyboo

I was very confused by a "score" on a biopsy report (pathology report i should say).

I know the BIRADS reporting system but i didn't even know they have a core biopsy "numbered" system? I found a article on the internet. It says UK reporting system but I live in Canada

Shelbybelbyboo

blah333

I was going to ask if you were in another country... not so different from BIRADS.