Reply to Highly suspicious for BREAST CANCER

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Highly suspicious for BREAST CANCER"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Breast cancer survivor here.  It sounds like if the biopsy is positive, you caught it really early.  This is the way its supposed to work.  Obviously I can't tell anything from your post -- if it was that easy we wouldn't need mammograms -- but you have every reason to be optimistic here.

By the way, I've had every birad -- yes the perfect flush, 1 through 6 -- and I think birads 4 isn't quite as bad as you're making it sound.  I don't think there is a high likelihood of malignancy. My experiences:

birads 1 -- totally fine, what I used to get before breast cancer.  And what i got when I actually had breast cancer which delayed my diagnosis, but I digress.

birads 2 -- known benign finding.  This is what I get now because of have scar tissue from my lumpectomy.  It is my new normal.

birads 3 -- likely benign.  This is when they have you come back in 3 or 6 months for a recheck but there is a 95% chance it is benign.  I had this once, and it was benign.

birads 4 -- probably a good idea to get a biopsy.  I've had a few of those since breast cancer, all benign.  I don't think the likelihood of a positive result is as high as you say.  I suppose you got that number from somewhere but I think my surgeon told me it was much less likely a chance.

birads 5-- this is the one that is highly likely to be malignant, which is why I quibble with the use of the words "highly suspicious" with birads 4.  This is the one that is highly suspicious.  I had this once on a breast MRI and was told there was over a 90% likelihood it was malignant.  But it was benign!

birads 6 -- known malignancy.  My cancer was diagnosed via a biopsy of a lump and I already had the result when my surgeon ordered a mammogram before surgery.  Since we knew I had cancer, it was a birads 6.

By the way, I was walking around with a growing malignancy for over a year and felt great.  I do not think your sickly, glassy eyed appearance has anything to do with this.  And my cancer was diagnosed at a later stage than it sounds like is a possibility for you.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics