Had my biopsy this morning

it’s rather insulting to treat the patient like a child, hiding information. Catching a word here or there only increases anxiety. I had a scare 5 years ago on my left breast. Not core needle Biopsy but another type where you lay on your stomach and the doctor biopsies it right there through a large hole at the bottom of the table. I gotta results immediately: benign fibrous growth. Not sure if the official term. This thing or things ( they saw 2 possibly) required a core biopsy. Have to wait. I missed the call today! So a doctor left a vague message to call them back but it was after hours!

Do they refrain from giving you good or bad news via voice mail? My paranoid mind thinks they’d have said everything is ok if it was benign. The message to call back makes me believe I have cancer!

I’m sorry you have been kept in the dark and that crucial information has been withheld. Good news is: I know 3 breast cancer survivors. All survived and are doing incredibly well. Please post news about your progress.

Fitmom, since your biopsy shows atypia, the next step in the progression of cells is DCIS - with the "IS" being "in situ". It sounds as though the report may have mentioned a possibility of DCIS, which would be a standard statement whenever atypical cells are found.

Where are you in Canada? I'm in Toronto and I've never had to wait more than a 5 or 6 days for biopsy results, less time when the result has been positive. I've had longer waits for surgical pathology, because there is a lot more tissue that they have to examine and in the case of a cancer pathology, more tests that need to be run.

Did you ask for a copy of your report? You have a right to get it. Usually for a biopsy my GP or the surgeon would provide it to me, or I could get it from the facility where the procedure was done.

Have you received pathology yet? How are you feeling? I had MRI guided core biopsy and us biopsy today and I am really in really sore. 1 in outer quadrant 1 inner omg. I am so nervous. I have a new Mass not seen in December and clumped non masslike enhancement 2.1 cm was seen in inner quadrant. Praying for you.

Fitmom, from my experience, when things are benign, they don't seem in the rush to get back to us, your case goes to the bottom of the list. When biopsy is bad news, for some reason they rush to give us this info. That's how my experience has been.

Actually they will give information on a voice mail, but you have to sign a paper stating that it is ok for them to do that. All my doctors, PCP included, have given me a paper to sign stating it was ok for them to leave a voice message on my phone. (no one is forced to sign, it is just offered) Pre-pandemic I worked in a school which had zero privacy, so I preferred to get voice messages with test results if they couldn't call me after I got home from work. It worked for me because most of the time I had 35 students in front of me.

Lol fitmom. Glad it sounds like all went well. Praying for good results. Get some rest and take something if you’re uncomfortable