Waiting on pathology report...

I just looked at my online portal and the report after ultrasound stated 6mm hypoechoic lesion with irregular margins. Bi-rad 4. Still waiting on core biopsy pathology report

I'm not feeling too optimistic right now

Ugh! Why don't they just get on with it already?!

Hi all!

MaryBeary & LifeAloft, I'm so sorry you're still waiting. With the holidays, I'm guessing that many of the pathology lab's schedules may be off..not that helps any.

Mary, the part about the correlation is that the procedure report talks about how many samples they took (and maybe how large they are, etc.). The pathology report should say they got that same number of samples, then talk about them...probably individually. So they will correlate.

For both of you, since you haven't heard yet, I'd call your doc's office back and ask when & how you can expect to hear the pathology report results. (This waiting from hour to hour is for the birds!--if you won't hear anything until the new year, then it would be nice to know that...). At any rate, you need to find out how their office handles this. Should you book an appointment with the doc to hear results? (when?) Will they call you? Will it be posted on the patient portal? If so, will they notify you that it's been posted? Or should you just keep checking?

Tell them you want to know so that you will know when you should start calling around to find out what's happened. (BTW, this is always a good idea when you have a test or procedure. That is, to find out when the procedure reports/test results will be available and how. As in, when should you start worrying if you haven't yet heard...and therefore start making calls & visits to find out what's wrong. And, further, never accept a "we'll only call if it's bad news or if you need to do something." Every office has things that "fall through the cracks" in their procedures. You never want your results to be ones that were "misplaced.")

And hang in there. Once you've found out when you should "find out." Try to put your worries aside. Let yourself get distracted and focused on other things. Because there's nothing you can do (or not do) that will affect the results.

LisaAlissa

had a 1.6 cm solid mass in breast that was given a birads 5 rating after ultrasound and mammo. It popped up out of nowhere. Had a biopsy Wednesday doc said results should be in today but they are not. I realize the holiday was Friday but the lab is open all weekend at the hospital. Can extended time mean more likely a positive ? I was reading online i

Hi Briesmom!

Nope. Don't try to read meaning into the "extended time." It could be anything. For example, maybe the lab is open, but many of the people there had vacation time they needed to take (so the lab was short-staffed)?. Maybe they had urgent in-hospital analyses to make (and since BC can have been growing for 6-10 years before found, a few extra days didn't seem like it would matter, so yours got pushed to the bottom of the pile). Maybe the typist who puts the results together did other tests first? Maybe yours was so clearly benign that they got reports out to people who had "real trouble" first? (and I could speculate on and on...) There's simply no way to know.

Since the results were supposed to be in today, see if they're where you expect them to show up by mid-morning tomorrow. Then if you can't stand it, start calling, with your Dr's office first. If they don't have it, ask them if they know what happened and if they've been given a new ETA. If not, ask them if you can call whoever was supposed to send it to them to try to find out, etc.

Don't let it go, but try not to be "the pest." You want to "enlist" your doc's office personnel in your search for the missing report.

HTH,

LisaAlissa