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Trvler
Trvler Member Posts: 3,159
edited March 2015 in Just Diagnosed

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/breast-biopsies-often-...

Just wondering if anyone read this? I feel pretty confident they have my diagnosis right because I had two different hospitals do biopsies and both said the same thing.

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  • umsami
    umsami Member Posts: 22
    edited March 2015

    Yes, I saw it last night....right after I had my core needle biopsy. :)

    Not sure what to do when I get the results back...if I should automatically go for a second opinion with another pathologist, or just trust the results, or what.

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  • Trvler
    Trvler Member Posts: 3,159
    edited March 2015

    It depends on what they say you had, I think. If they say you have DCIS, then yeah, maybe.

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  • Bendi
    Bendi Member Posts: 50
    edited March 2015

    thanks for posting. I did have biopsies but they were not sure if they got the right area, lost the calcifications. All five samples came back benign and some (don't know how many) did have signs of the calcifications but I am waiting to see if the radiologist wants to do more. I want it to happen.....

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited March 2015

    Bendi, more samples wouldn't help the examples in the article.

    Pathologist are actually misreading the ones they had. The biggest discrepancies were in atypia diagnoses.

    If your samples had calcifications it sounds like they got the area they intended to


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  • Bendi
    Bendi Member Posts: 50
    edited March 2015

    true.....

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