Radiologist disagrees with pathology report

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curlygirl72
curlygirl72 Member Posts: 1
edited October 2019 in Waiting for Test Results

I had a stereotactic biopsy of the left and right breasts on Monday. The right came back fine with no signs of cancer. Here is the weird thing... the left has ductal epithelial hyperplasia. I am fortunate enough to have online access to my medical record. My radiologist that did the biopsy put a note in that stated the mammogram is inconsistent with the pathology report. As in she thinks there is early ductal carcinoma, but the biopsies did not show that for the left breast. I am having a second stereotactic biopsy this Friday. Not looking forward to it as I am still very sore from the first one. Anyone have to have a repeat biopsy of the same area?

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  • hapa
    hapa Member Posts: 920
    edited October 2019

    I had a repeat biopsy the next morning. My breast sample came up negative but the lymph node biopsy was positive. It was unpleasant to say the least.

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  • Legomaster225
    Legomaster225 Member Posts: 672
    edited October 2019

    I had a second biopsy of a lymph node. The first one showed no cancer but also stated there was no lymph tissue in the sample. I watched both biopsies on the ultrasound screen. Just a difficult location and the lymph node kept rolling away from the needle they said. Hope it goes smoothly tomorrow

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  • ctmbsikia
    ctmbsikia Member Posts: 1,095
    edited October 2019

    Gosh, sorry you have to do this again, but hopefully another sample will provide a clear diagnosis.

    I sort of had the same thing on my right side. The day I went for the stereotactic bio they called me in another room 1st and the Radiologist said they had a call into the BS because as SHE was reading my MRI and Mammo she suspected another area of concern. So I agreed to another biopsy that same day. That one was the MRI guided one with the Radiologist who performed my left side needle core biopsy a few weeks prior.

    One came back as benign (fibroadenoma) and 2nd one as LCIS, so to be triple sure I also had an excision of that area during surgery and pathology also said LCIS.

    I am grateful to the Radiologist Dr. for speaking up with her thoughts it could be LCIS. Turns out she was right.

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