Breast cancer overdiagnosis

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  • JoTheGreek
    JoTheGreek Member Posts: 54
    edited June 2019

    brial! good choice, girl! sending tons of benign wishes your way, may we all get the best possible results in our upcoming tests, imaging or biopsies!

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  • brial
    brial Member Posts: 6
    edited June 2019

    you are totally right. After what I’ve found out yesterday I see how wrong I was. This is the big problem: cancer is sneaky and so scary. I’m sure all ladies here that went or still going through a lot would have been happy to find the “In situ” stage rather than the invasive phase. I pray mine is b9. However, I’m happy I went and I’m confident that the best thing to do is to have the biopsy. I hope all ladies here going through tests now are receiving good news. Hugs to all of you😍

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited June 2019

    brial, I'm so glad you met with the Radiologist to get more information about what your imaging shows.

    With everything we all wrote, you summed it up succinctly and perfectly - cancer is sneaky.

    Good Luck with the biopsy... hoping your get benign results!

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  • AliceBastable
    AliceBastable Member Posts: 3,461
    edited June 2019

    Hugs to you, Brial. We'll be happy to share in any good news you get, and we'll be supportive if it turns out you're one of us.

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  • CGLion
    CGLion Member Posts: 56
    edited June 2019

    Brial, I just read through this post as I just scheduled my MRI for this coming Sunday, June 23, and was looking for information about the process. Unlike you, I am having breast changes but nothing has shown up on the mammo or US. I'm hoping the MRI can answer why I have sharp pain, thickening and bloody discharge from my right breast. I saw that you had your biopsy scheduled for today. I hope it went very smoothly and you get your results quickly. Sending b9 thoughts your way!

    Carissa

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  • brial
    brial Member Posts: 6
    edited June 2019

    Hi Carissa,

    In my case I had an MRI with contrast substance. I think this is what they might do in your case. The biopsy was exactly like the MRI process with contrast but they also did the biopsy. I’m sending b9 thoughts your way, too. MRI will show if it is something questionable.

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  • brial
    brial Member Posts: 6
    edited June 2019

    Hello sweet ladies,

    I received a b9 result. It is PASH. It is very strange because that breast is smaller and PASH is associated with breast enlargements. I haven’t seen the pathology report. I’m on progesterone 14 days per month and I asked if it is progesterone reactive. But the response was that it was not tested. I would like to know if it is a way to ask to be tested. I think I had this mass for a long time. And probably now is shrinking since my breast gets smaller. They want to follow up with an MRI in 6 months.

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  • santabarbarian
    santabarbarian Member Posts: 3,085
    edited June 2019

    Very glad for your results!!

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  • CGLion
    CGLion Member Posts: 56
    edited June 2019

    That is great news Brial! Hopefully they will find a way to get your question about the progesterone answered :)

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited June 2019

    Great news, Brial!

    From my quick search, it appears that PASH is thought to be hormone driven, and when tested, most PASH is PR+. So you may be right about the Progesterone connection.

    Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia (PASH)

    Pseudoangiomatous Stromal Hyperplasia (PASH) of the Breast: A Series of 24 Patients

    "All women except two were premenopausal or perimenopausal at diagnosis. Nineteen samples were available for hormonal receptor staining and of these 18 of 19 (95%) were ER or PR positive."

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  • JoTheGreek
    JoTheGreek Member Posts: 54
    edited June 2019

    Wonderful news! I think it was worthwhile that you opted for the biopsy, now carefree and happy you go on with your life!

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  • Beesy_The_Other_One
    Beesy_The_Other_One Member Posts: 274
    edited June 2019

    Brial, this is wonderful news! I'm glad to hear they'll be watching you closely with the dense breast tissue. I never chimed in, but from your first post I was impressed that the doctors were suggesting an MRI since the mammograms of those of us with dense tissue look like a snowstorm--and cancer looks like a snowball! My tissue was rated a D--extremely dense--and if I knew then what I know now, I would have insisted on a yearly ultrasound at the very least. My cancer should have been found far sooner.

    Truly happy for you!

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  • Meow13
    Meow13 Member Posts: 4,859
    edited June 2019

    I have that extremely dense rating too. My radiologist always asks are you getting a yearly mri. Yes I am they seem relieved since mammogram is not reliable for me. However, it was the yearly mammogram that found my 2 cancers.

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  • brial
    brial Member Posts: 6
    edited June 2019

    CarissaRae I hope you will get a b9 result, too.


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  • Cowgirl13
    Cowgirl13 Member Posts: 1,936
    edited June 2019

    brial, I'm so happy you had a b-9 result. You were very, very brave and also had a lot of courage to post after all our comments. We were just really concerned for you.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited June 2019

    Excellent news briall! Take good care of yourself

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