How soon did they schedule biopsy after mammogram

Hello....mine went like this...

1/20: mammogram 11am-ish

1/20: biopsy 2:00pm-ish

1/20: confirmed cancer 2:30pm-ish

1/21: 5 hours of surgery



Kinda BAM BAM BAM for me....LOL

I was Birads 4-5 and had 2 suspicious areas. I waited about a week to get scheduled at the Breast health center. I think I could have got in a few days earlier, but I wanted a certain Dr to do it. This was in March 2011.

First, baseline mammo, turned 40 in March, 10/24/11, callback mammo 10/27, biopsy 11/7, results, 11/11. MRI 11/16, bmx 12/8. In between all of this appointments with my PS and BS and genetic testing.

Some of us aren't so lucky

Diagnostic Mammo 10/9 (in CA - don't need an Rx to get a Mammo)

Ob/Gyn at conference....her staff filed it away

Luckily I had scheduled an appointment with her a week later and I mentioned my Mammo 

"Oh - let me go look"  Seriously?  What if I had cancelled my appointment?

US/Diagnostic Mammo 1.5 weeks later

Ob/Gyn on vacation; had to wait over a week to get Biopsy ordered

Biopsy around 11/7

11/11 Dx'd

12/13 Lump scheduled

12/9 You are BRCA positive / Lump cancelled

Xmas and New Years - no openings on surgeon(s) schedule until January

12/20  SNB - someone cancelled

1/20 BMX 

mid Feb "Oncoscore 39"

Ob/Gyn FIRED

When the radiologist recommended a biopsy, they wouldn't even let me make the appointment, until:

a) the radiology report went to my primary physician

b) she sent a referral back

c) I called to make the appointment and they couldn't find the referral

d) I called the primary and they confirmed the referral sent

e) repeat step c & d

f) repeat step c & d, again

g) freak out on the phone trying to make the appointment again

h) get transferred to breast center director, and freak out because I get her voice mail

i) receive an apologetic phone call from the director, and they find my referral

j) biopsy appointment scheduled for the following week...

......... so umm... for me, it was two or two and a half weeks until biopsy.

Mammo done on a Tuesday and radiologist stated that he had time and the room was available so lets do it now.I told him that I wasn't prepared to do it right now, translation, I had no valium on me. Afer promising to give me some I agreed. He then said the results would be ready in 2-3 days. The next day I got a call from my oncologist's office asking me to come in on Friday. She had been following me for LCIS for 3 years. Right then and there I knew the results were in and most likely positive. On Thursday me husband, a physician at NYU ,was able to ontain the results and he called me and told me what was found.I'm not so sure that telling a patient the results on the phone is the best thing.I was quite calm when my husband gave me the news but I became hysterical afterwards. Maybe it was good that he wasn't home . I kind of screamed and cried for a few hours and got all my rage out.

Barbara

Found Lump on 4/11 called dr few days later and had mammo on 4/19 (baseline, diagnostic and ultrasound) was told that day that it looked like cancer.  He tech asked why I was crying because "I was there for a reason"  His words exactly!!!  I was only home for 10 min when my dr called and had me an appt for a biopsy the next day 4/20 was told that day that he was 85% sure it was cancer.  Met with Breast Cancer Surgeon on 4/28 and had surgery on 5/11. 

After my experience with the tech being obnixious, I put on my big girl pants and never cried again, it put a fire in me that still burns when I think of him. 

Had my mammo,US, Biopsy all the same day one right after the other...

hello! Mine was such a surreal experience.

5/21/12 first mammo on my 35th b-day

5/22/12 bilateral ultrasounds

5/23/12 bilateral biopsies (lt breast stereotactic needle biopsy  rt breast ultrasound guided biopsy)

5/24/12 the most long drawn out day of my life the waiting

5/25/12 confirmed diagnosis lt breast positive  rt breast negative

I have informed my husband I get a birthday month redo next year. This years birthday sucked!

Good luck with your biopsy, keep us updated.

Mammogram May 15

Repeat Mammogram + Ultasound May 16 (  Microcalcification looked suspicious )

Stereotactic Biopsy  June 21/  Results by phone June 25 (Radiologist called to give me the GOOD news!) DCIS + 1cm IDC

MRI of the Breast  July 6 (confirmed biopsy  results)

Breast Surgeon consultation  July 16

Plastic Surgeon consultation July 23

Double Mastectomy with DEIP Reconstruction  August 1

mammo on 24th aug.... ultra sound on 25th .... birad 5 

biopsy on 27th.... diagnosed on 31st IDC stage 2a grade 3 (3.7 cm tumor)

chemo treatment started sept 26th

I'm so nervous, I found a lump in September (1month ago) out of nowhere, about the size of a robins egg, I had to make an appt. with my PCP for an order for a diagnostic mammo and US, this took 3 weeks, by then my lump had jumped in size to a normal egg size. My US was highly likely for malignancy, Birads 5,size 5.5 cm, with a calcified lymph node. Instead of getting a biopsy they made an appt. with the Oncology surgeon. Is this normal, I now am waiting two weeks for this appt. In the meantime, this mass is growing like crazy. It has taken over my breast and now feels like 8cm or more and is getting uncomfortable. Has anyone has this experience, I am afraid because it is growing so fast and I can't get in sooner. Thanks in advance for reading this.

Here's my timetable:

8/17/15 (aft.): Annual screening mammo (baseline at 38: then every 5 yrs till 45; biennially till 55; then annually, all normal)

8/18 (morning): Report in my NorthShore Connect inbox--Aug. 18 (“focal asymmetry" R breast, suggest call for diagnostic spot compression mammo & ultrasound if indicated). Called for appt., the first one I could get (begging & pleading.....

8/24: Diagnostic mammo, followed by ultrasound. 7mm est. size. Biopsy recommended (BIRADS 4B). Was told it was safe to travel (New Orleans, Scranton, Geneva, IL) and have biopsy 2 wks later

9/8: Ultrasound-guided core-needle biopsy

9/9 (evening, got phone call from Gyn's partner): IDC grade 2 diagnosis

9/10 (morning phone call from Gyn): ER+/PR+/HER2- tumor profile, 7-9mm est. size w/“focal DCIS"

THEN

9/14: consult w/surgeon

9/23 (earliest date available): lumpectomy w/sentinel node biopsy

9/28: surgical path report via inbox: 1.3cm actual size, IDC (no DCIS), grade 2, mitotic score 1, tubule score 3, same hormone/HER2 profile as biopsy, amt of tissue removed abt. the size of a DoubleStuf Oreo, 2 sentinel and 2 non-sentinel nodes removed--all nodes negative, no lymphovascular invasion, all margins clear

10/1: followup visits w/surgeon and MO; Oncotype DX ordered

10/8: tested for BRCA mutations (awaiting results)

10/12: OncotypeDX score 16

10/14: Initial RO consult--APBI rather than longer full-breast RT prescribed

10/16: spontaneous rupture of sentinel node biopsy external incision w/severe seroma leakage; incision re-closed, this time w/sutures inst. of steri-strips

10/21: RO sim session (still a go, but RT may have to be delayed till sutures removed and sentinel node incision heals)

10/22: followups scheduled w/surgeon, MO

Turned out that the Scranton gig was canceled when we got there & found the venue never entered our booking--so I could have been biopsied a WEEK earlier and been further along in treatment by now.

I had a routine screening mammogram on the 20th of August. Within a few days I had an "invitation" to attend a BreastScreen clinic in my area on September 9th. (2 and a half hours drive each way from where I live). At this appointment I had a diagnostic mammogram, an ultra sound and a core biopsy all on the same day. Was told then and there that the specialists were certain in was cancer. The biopsy pathology was due back 2 days later; on the 11th but due to an "equipment malfunction" my results were delayed by a day. The surgeon phoned me on Saturday the 12th with the cancer confirmation. The surgeon I decided on was away for 2 weeks and I chose to wait. My mastectomy (Right) was on October the 9th. There is a lot of waiting when you have cancer.