Pathology results

It's normal to see the surgeon to review the pathology report after breast cancer surgery. The pathology report provides lots of information that's relevant to the rest of the treatment plan.

However when you say, "everything is fine", does that mean you don't already have a breast cancer diagnosis (which is normally the case for those having lumpectomy surgery)? Was your surgery an excisional (surgical) biopsy to remove something benign and determine if anything more concerning is present? If it's the latter, and if no cancer was found, the surgeon would still want to tell you the results and discuss any follow-up plans.

Sorry, I was confused by the use of the term "lumpectomy". Although the surgeries are pretty much the same, usually the term "excisional biopsy" is used when there is no cancer diagnosis and the purpose of the surgery is to remove a high risk or problematic benign lesion - the surgery is in effect a biopsy to find out what more might be going on. The term "lumpectomy" is used once there has been a breast cancer diagnosis. I know that sometimes to simplify paperwork (one set of procedural documents instead of two), insurance companies, doctors and hospitals call the surgery a lumpectomy instead of an excisional biopsy but that can lead to confusion and an assumption that you have breast cancer.

Since you already have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow, it makes sense that the surgeon will talk to you then about the results, regardless of whether the findings are benign or something more serious. Most doctors want to talk personally to patients about their results, good new or bad news, and don't pass the responsibility onto their staff. So I don't think you should read anything into the comment from the nurse or the fact that you weren't given the full results over the phone by the nurse.