Biopsy came back benign but Dr is not convinced

Sometimes the doctor decides that even though the needle biopsy is benign that that result is discordant with what he is seeing on imaging. He wants just wants to make sure.

It happens infrequently but I have seen a handful of people go through that here.

Here's a link to search results I got here when i put in "discordant"

https://community.breastcancer.org/posts/search?ut...

I had something like this happen. I found a lump on the left side. The radiologist said he thought I should get a biopsy because although it looked like a fibroadenoma there was one small area that was obscured by my extremely dense breast tissue. I got the biopsy and it came back as a fibroadenoma. The surgeon who performed the biopsy told me I could watch it for 6 months and then see if it had grown or we could do an excision on the lump. I asked her what she thought I should do and she told me she wanted to take it out, just to be sure because she didn't like the way it looked. Turned out that 2.2cm of the 3.9cm x 3cm lump was IDC. Personally I think it's a good idea to have it out, just to be on the safe side.

Fingers crossed for you!

I think the excisional biopsy was probably in the cards as soon as the core results were discordant. I thought the surgical one was easier than the core myself. It is all a huge headache and stress though, isn't it? For what it is worth, several of these I've seen have come back benign anyway.

I went through something similar. Birads 5 and a beautiful benign 14 gauge ultrasound guided biopsy. I was so happy, but 14 hours later, was told it was discordant. So glad the radiologist was tenacious about it. Excisional biopsy found 7mm of IDC. Now we have to go back in for some lymph nodes. It is not easy to have your diagnosis drag out over weeks and months. But that's better than not catching it as early as possible. Please let us know how your test comes out. This place really saved my sanity. Highly recommend you stick around!

I too have had a benign biopsy which turned out to be cancer. It's nervewracking to wait for a correct diagnosis, but better now than later when you add regret to the anxiety. And, if it truly is benign, you have still done the right thing.

That's fantastic news! Congratulations!

Hope this helps..... I had a Birads 4 lump that the radiologist said looked very suspicious on both the mammo and ultrasound. I asked her if it was possible that the biopsy could be negative. She said yes but then she would either do another biopsy or send me to a breast surgeon to remove it. Well the biopsy came back positive but what I got from that was sometimes the biopsy can be a false negative because they didn't get a good specimen. However it's NEVER cancer until they can prove it! Good luck.

Such wonderful news! Thankful it was benign. Hug your husband extra tight tonight!