Difficult to organize a biopsy
A week ago I had a CT scan of the chest due to being out of breath. It was thought to be a problem with my lungs though I have no cough and don't smoke. The scan showed a 3.7 cm calcified elongated m...
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Update. The radiologist had a look using the ultrasound and said he's sure it's scar tissue from my BR operation in 2003. He didn't biopsy it. The thing is 3.7 cM long. There was no mention of it being there when I had a mammogram 18 months ago. Both my mother and grandmother developed breast cancer after menopause at the same age as me. And I have something nasty in my lungs presenting as interstitial lung disease with ground glass opacities which from my research, could well be metastatic cancer from somewhere else. I am seeing the pulmonologist in 2 weeks, but I thought it would have been good to rule out breast cancer. Not sure what to do now. I have returned to the country town where I live, 4 hours' drive from the radiologist. Waste of time that was.