Haven't had biopsy yet, but

cmharris:

What a pity that you were unable to contain this outburst at the end of your intervention:

"...OR you can stay on the alternatives thread where there are some whackos - oops did I say that? -  that will support any monkey's piss cure/treatment that a snake oil salesman sells them. Or believe that a day or two of eating organic veggies will make them feel as though they are on their way to a cure."

Some of your points might actually have deserved to be part of an interesting debate. Unfortunately, you self-destroy without any help from any wacko.

How in the heck did I miss this?..........hmmmm.................my Radiologist said she was 95% sure that it was cancer and set me up with a breast cancer surgeon before I ever left her office but at the moment she could not tell me anything else............now the question I have is how can you decide on your course of treatment if you don't know what kind of bc you have?...........isn't the biopsy for getting your pathology report....to find out what type of breast cancer you have.........to get set up for lymph nodes biopsy......to get body scans to check for bc showing up elsewhere......to get staged properly.........not really sure what the arguement is about whether a Radiologist can tell if a lump is cancer or not......who cares?.........the biopsy tells the doctors a whole lot more if it is just cancer or not.....Shokk

Oh Thank you so very very much Yazmin!!! This picture was taken at the time of my dx. I had been told that I would lose my hair. When I got home from wig shopping, I told my niece that I wanted some good pix of me in costume before my life changed forever.

I was 48.

C

Now - I deleted the post.

My surgeon knew it was cancer when he saw my films.  He was comparing them to ones from 3 years prior after an earlier biopsy and showed me what was going on between the two. He also pointed out that the new area was different from the old biopsy area where the little clips were left in as a marker.  He didn't say cancer .. but he and the nurse knew.  I was the one with my head buried.  I was at the breast center of my local hospital.  The unknowns were size and type and node status .. although they estimated it was bigger than it actually was.  Then I had a biopsy and I received the biopsy results the next day.  All the particulars came after my lumpectomy and SNB. 

Hugs Julia and everybody!

Bren

I did not take umbrage with the post that IDC has no symptoms because for years it may not have any symptoms.  There is a large concensus that believe, that many cancers can live in your body for years before detection.  Therefore prior to detection they had no symptoms.There are also those women out there that their IDC had not been dxed until after a biopsy has determined that they have IDC as well as DCIS. 

I actually hated to post in this thread at all, but I felt that your post was the most damaging.  If someone suspects that cancer has no symptoms then they will likely be checked more regularly.  If however, they feel a lump like mine and believed your post, then the outcome could be tragic. After all, mine was a very "bad lump". Again, I find myself getting very concerned over the credibility of these doctors.

And BTW for the record, I am only against snake oil salesmen and the true whackos that post in the Altie thread not all of those posters. And yes, there are some of those posing as concerned naturalists.  I have never suggested that you were one.  In fact, I am sure if everyone actually read my post they would not have  taken offense at my reference to whackos unless perhaps they identified with whackos.  As the old adage says... if the shoe fits...

As to whether a biopsy is really necessary, this is how it was explained to me. Although, all of my initial appts and screenings suggested that I had cancer none of the doctors said anything definitive, unless you count the post-it note from my radiologist. (yes, I reported him and filed a grievance). My BS said it was because without a biopsy they have no real evidence only circumstantial. Especially since microcalcifications are not automatically cancer and lumps can be well.. b9.

Talk about beating a dead horse, cmharris.  And then your buddy Athena, after numerous announcements about her departure and going through about five different screen names in a week, is on the "reboot" forum saying she still doesn't know "what's going on" with the "Crunchypoodlemama/Desdemona/Nico" thing except maybe it is a "good cop/bad cop thing."  Don't think you need to mourn her loss just yet as she seems to have a compulsion to post long diatribes, announcing she is leaving, then coming back and doing the same thing all over again.

And don't bother concerning yourself with my doctor or Crunchy's doctor, please.  It's very touching but I am alive and well after being diagnosed by these so-called incompetent doctors with DCIS in late 2001.

Also, in defense of bluedasher and to question desdemona's doctor's educating her to identify cancerous lumps... desemona said...

Why do you feel the need to "defend" bluedasher when absolutely NOBODY has objected to her post?

Oh, and your "concern" about the competence of my doctor is very touching, but he saved my life in late 2001, so don't bother.

I'm convinced this is more about baiting me than defending you, bluedasher. 

Desdemona,

Baiting you? There, you are quite wrong. I think you are taking my posts too personally. I have never suggested that you, or anyone in particular, was an altie other than Crunchy. Nor have I grouped you with any whackos. Perhaps it is the  "if the shoe fits..." Do you feel guilty or too representative of that term? Nevermind.

As to your doctor being so credible, I certainly hope that doesn't stop you from correcting his mistakes with his patients. Just because all of my doctors are credible doesn't mean that they are perfect. I have "called them out on the carpet" to prevent other women from being misled or mistreated. Please re-read my posts.

I have merely made it a practice of mine from day 1, to call it as I see it, especially if I see misleading or "dangerous" information. Day One being my first dx, when I became adamant regarding barbaric surgical procedures. I have also tried to look at many of these threads with an analytical and objective eye. I am actually glad that Deanna saw the amusement intended in my post about whackos.  I am not the flaming angry type.

C

Crunchy, have you had your biopsy yet or is it still pending? I missed what day it was supposed to be scheduled. After reading throught this topic I am curious.

Katy, she had her biopsy and it found DCIS.

Deleted because I decided to live in the present!