Anyone ever get Discordant Results from CNB

I have not experienced what you are going through, but I would suggest that you start one new thread under the "just diagnosed" forum. Whether it is pash, or something else, staying on one thread so people can look and respond will be important. It makes conversations very confusing to have several different threads going at the same time and, therefore, some people will not comment.

If they excise the area, you will have a better understanding of what your diagnosis is and what to do about it.

I had discordant findings from a CNB. In my case it turns out the radiologist suspected cancer, the pathology showed benign. In that case I had it surgically excised and it turned out to be benign, it turned out to be exactly what pathology said it was, some weird infarcted tissue. (My cancer was found later in a different location)

The radiologist called my benign lymph node CNB pathology "discordant" and it drove me crazy. Basically - he was pretty confident that what he was seeing by US should indicate cancer and the pathology said no. MRI later showed a hole right through the lymph node so it wasn't missed or anything.

So I went into treatment with this big question mark about whether or not I had lymph node involvement. Since I was HER2 positive, I had to have chemo regardless and it wasn't pursued any further. At the time if surgery, the SNB showed no cancer in 3 nodes. But there was also no cancer remaining in the breast.

I had a biopsy with b9 results and was also called back because of discordant results. Unfortunately, it did turn out to be cancer. The good news is they didn't simply accept the b9 results. Things would have been much worse had they not dug deeper (in my case an MRI guided biopsy).

Mommakat I'll be thinking of you and hoping for good results.

My first posting and very scared while waiting for an appointment for mastectomy due to size of DCIS and sentinel node biopsy...needle biopsy result found no node involvement but DCIS, high grade - no well defined tumor, lots of calcification in dense breast. Then the MRI of breast with and without contrast showed 1 axillary lymph node with "eccentric and asymmetric cortex" and gave intermediate level of concern for metastasis and reaffirmed the size of DCIS, largest at 8cm. Needle biopsy done July 6th and MRI done July 13th and the earliest pre-op is August 2nd, so my anxiety level is very high fearing the worst of all possibilities.

I'm hoping with all my might that there is no lymph involvement and that it is DCIS and not an invasive cancer which was misdiagnosed in needle biopsy pathology report as DCIS or just didn't find the invasive part. Also I'm kicking myself for having missed last year's mammogram, which adds to my worry because this wasn't present in October 2015 mammogram and it appears to be fast growing. I'm almost 47 years old. This waiting game is gruesome.

In reading other postings, it appears DCIS may be found along with invasive cancer...so many different ramifications, it is maddening. But this forum has been a mood stabilizer for me, knowing that there are many others and that people are living despite metastasis. So thank you very much!

Thank you very much mommakat! The surgical oncologist wants another ultrasound guided biopsy of the left side's abnormal lymph node and the mass on the right breast. Hopefully this will all come back negative. It looks like according to the first pathology report, I'm ER- and PR-, I don't see HER result.

At moments I wonder when this whole thing will end and how much I'm bringing down my husband and son. But I must say this scary process has made me more patient and kinder towards others because you don't know what battles everyone is facing.

So cheers to facing the future with optimism and humility.

PS I realize I'm posting this to the wrong forum, so I will move myself to another category. : )

Wonderful mammakat...moving forward with promising prognosis!!!

Great to hear, mommakat!  Just want to add, I was adopted too, by maternal family members....so I have no paternal family health info....it really sucks, doesn't it?   If you by chance find any place that can do any sort of testing for genetic or familial health issues (at a reasonable price), please share!