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A bit confused
Hi, after my call back from a mammogram recently, spent 4 hours having further tests and 5 biopsies. At the final doctor told me they are pretty certain I have breast cancer and went on to explain tha...
Welcome to the forum @Shellca . No wonder you are confused. Second opinion maybe????
Sometimes they do miss with the biopsies, but you would think 5 of them would have given some kind of conclusive result. My first core biopsy came back as normal cells. but they knew that was wrong as the lymph nodes were positive and the MRI had said otherwise. The second one, which was done by a different doctor at a different place, hit it and got the correct result.
I know of a lady recently who had a lumpectomy and aux clearance. When the final results came back there was NO positive cells in the lymph nodes at all just the breast. Unnecessary invasive surgery to which both she and the surgeon were incredibly disturbed by, even though the original biopsy suggested lymph node invasion.
Did you have an MRI as well?
Hope it gets sorted quickly for you.
xoxoxo
Sometimes they do miss with the biopsies, but you would think 5 of them would have given some kind of conclusive result. My first core biopsy came back as normal cells. but they knew that was wrong as the lymph nodes were positive and the MRI had said otherwise. The second one, which was done by a different doctor at a different place, hit it and got the correct result.
I know of a lady recently who had a lumpectomy and aux clearance. When the final results came back there was NO positive cells in the lymph nodes at all just the breast. Unnecessary invasive surgery to which both she and the surgeon were incredibly disturbed by, even though the original biopsy suggested lymph node invasion.
Did you have an MRI as well?
Hope it gets sorted quickly for you.
xoxoxo