Can Stereotactic puncture milk duct

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AnewBeginning
AnewBeginning Member Posts: 536
edited June 2014 in IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)

I am wondering if having a stereotactic biopsy can puncture the milk duct and have the cancer cells break through.  Any opinions?

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  • XmasDx
    XmasDx Member Posts: 225
    edited March 2011

    I would think that to do the biopsy they MUST puncture the milk duct. Since they aren't sending the needle in via the duct, they must go through it, right?  I mean, they took 7 cores from me, to me that means 7 places where they punctured the ducts...?  Maybe I am not understanding, but that is how I envision it.  

    What I do know is that I had 2 1/2 months between my stereotactic core biopsy and my uni-mx.  Biopsy showed grade 2 DCIS.  MRI done days after the core biopsy showed extensive DCIS.  But in the final pathology post mx 3mm of grade 1 IDC was found.  It is my understanding that IDC is genetically different from DCIS?  However, I am unsure if my "invasive" cancer was truly IDC or was actually DCIS that grew out of the duct post-biopsy.  

     No idea.... but plausible I think.  Personally I'm glad the entire area has been removed now.  

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