Will the doctor give me the results over the phone?

SMV - I got my results over the phone - both for the MRI and the biopsy results. The only ones I got in person were the pathology after surgery and that was done at a post op appointment. Best wishes for benign results! Hang in there - the waiting for results can be really hard!

SMV,

I think leaf is correct, depends on the Dr. Or the company they work for/with. I went to my personal Dr. I already "knew". Extremely strong, gut feeling. Also, all the long faces at mammos & biopsy procedure.

I was told my biopsy results over the phone. I'm sure some doctors are different. My BS tried to give me my pathology results over the phone, but I missed her call. Just as well, I had plans for the weekend and if I knew on Friday that I was going to require chemo, plans would have been ruined

My BS said he would call me on my birthday to report if the lump removed was benign. No call came. Two days later my NP, who functions as my PCP and was on vacation, called me at work to tell me I had IDC. She knew I needed to know ASAP to arrange my teaching schedule. I knew it was cancer by what was said and they way I was treated, but the team wasn't sure what kind, possibly a skin cancer. BS told me at a prearranged appointment a week after surgery. He was surprised and annoyed that I found out from someone else.

Doctors are sometimes bound by practice policy or state law as to whether or not they can give results over the phone.  That is why you are asked identifying information over the phone sometimes, even if they are just discussing your general health, not necessarily biopsy results.  I have had numerous skin cancers in addition to breast cancer and I am notified by certified letter, requiring my signature, after each biopsy.  My mail carrier just winks at me now, there have been a lot of letters.  After my breast cancer biopsy I was called and told that I could come to the breast surgeon's office (I worked in the same hospital) and discuss my result.  I was also treated for an issue in the sarcoma department of another hospital and discussed the MRI result at a follow-up appointment - nothing was discussed over the phone.

My family doctor called me before I even had the biopsy based on the preliminary reports

from mammogram and ultrasound.  We had a 30 year relationship as doctor/patient and she

told me "It wasn't good" and to start looking for a surgeon.   I already had as I just knew it

was bad news.

The radiologist who performed my biopsy called me with the news. The way he acted during the procedure pretty much told me he knew it was cancer. He called my gynecologist's office for meand told me that if I had not heard from her by the next day to call him back and he would chew some a$$. My BS also called me after my lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy to tell me there was no cancer in the node and that she had gotten clean margins.