Complex cyst malignant?

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Zookriz
Zookriz Member Posts: 6
edited August 2016 in Waiting for Test Results

Hi Everyone, I had some calcifications that were biopsied last year and we're benign. This year they added an ultrasound bbcause of my breast density. They found a few regular cysts and one complex cyst. I was told I would need a follow-up ultrasound every 6 months to follow the comes cyst. At my follow-up I was told that it grew a small amount and has become more vascular. I don't have any details of where the vessels are, internal or on the perimeter and I assume I went from birads 3 to 4. I was just wondering if anyone has had a complex cyst hide cancer. I need to get my report for the details and the dreaded waiting for the biopsy. Oh the waiting....My biopsy is the 24th. Thank goodness that's the day my kids go back to school. Good luck to all you gals, I've been following along with a lot you.

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  • Zookriz
    Zookriz Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    I went and picked up the radiologist reports. February on the right at the 10:00 position 2 cm from the nipple there is an 8 mm sharply defined oval isoechoic nodular area with internal anechoic cysts. This has good through enhancement and the long axis is parallel to the skin. There is no corresponding mammographic abnormality. Nothing too scary in this report... but 6 months later....complex breast cyst is 8 mm x 5 mm slightly larger on today's examination. On today's exam it has thick septation and some slightly increased vascularity within the septation. Margins are macro lobulated. Any thoughts?

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  • MelissaDallas
    MelissaDallas Member Posts: 7,268
    edited August 2016

    I think complex cysts only have about a 1 1/2 percent risk of malignancy. Almost statistically insignificant. I've had one biopsied when they couldn't tell if it was a complex cyst or a benign inframammary lymph node. It collapsed when they stuck it, so that solved that.

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  • Zookriz
    Zookriz Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    This waiting for biopsy day is killing me...tick...tick...tick...ughhh. I don't have good support at home either. Both my parents passed from cancer and my husband hasn't said so much as a word to me. Well he asked me in a text which breast. I know cysts are rarely cancer but mine changed and now it has several malignant characteristics and I'm worried. The worst part is I know I have to do this alone like the last time.

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  • capricorn0106
    capricorn0106 Member Posts: 16
    edited August 2016

    I was in the same boat a week ago. The radiology and my OBG thought I have complex cyst. But when they did biopsy, it was solid. I though that was cancer for sure. However, it came out totally normal. Mine has some cancer's characters too. I think sometime doctors just cannot tell from the imagines. For anything if they are not sure it's benign, they will order biopsy (my insurance even did not pay for it). Also, the research I did says the same thing, complex cyst has very low chance to be malignant. Understand your anxiety, hanging there and good luck.

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  • Zookriz
    Zookriz Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    Thanks Capricorn.

    I'm so happy to hear your biopsy went well. Crossing my fingers, mine is tomorrow. I wouldn't worry so much about my situation, even the fact that it has some cancer characteristics but that it's changing. Hoping that's it's just complex or a fibroadenomas or something. I have had breast implants for about 20 years, not one of my better life choices, and I'm always afraid they will cause a problem some day. It definitely makes testing more uncomfortable. What if the sucker explodes during a mammogram and takes out the nurses eye, am I liable? Lol. Maybe that's why she hides behind that shield when I get tested, she's afraid I'll explode. Anyway biopsy tomorrow morning, hoping it stays simple. 😃

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  • Zookriz
    Zookriz Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    Hi Everyone,

    A little update, I had my biopsy. The radiologist was going to just do a fine needle biopsy because the ultrasound tech had up a picture and said it's almost all cyst. The radiologist said we could just suck out the fluid and that would be it. Then she asked to do the ultrasound herself so she could look. One one view the area was almost entirely cyst but when she moved the wand it turned into a cyst that was half nodule. It all depended how she positioned. So I ended up having a ultrasound guided core biopsy. My tissue was so dense that she had to use two hands to get the needle in. When the tech took pressure off the site I actually sprayed her with blood. She said she had never had that happen before. There was also a student in the room and we all had a chuckle. I expect yes to wake up with a purple boob after all that and nothing, no bruising or anything. For anyone needing a core biopsy it was painless and I needed no meds after. The thought of what was going on was harder than the procedure itself. Hope to have results soon.

    Thanks everyone for listening.

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  • Zookriz
    Zookriz Member Posts: 6
    edited August 2016

    Yea!!!! Biopsy b9! Thank you to all you brave women who take the time to lend a shoulder!

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