Reply to Wow--Have to wait months for possible cancer to be checked

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Wow--Have to wait months for possible cancer to be checked"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Suspicious” according to whom? If that’s based on a screening mammogram, IME they should be able to get you in sooner. Otherwise, agree with PPs - waiting a few weeks (not months) is pretty standard. [/quote]

According to the radiologist who wrote the report on my breast MRI film.

OP[/quote]

Is it an MRI biopsy?

What is the BIRADS (“suspicious” is not how radiologists communicate a biopsy needs to be biopsies)?

I have had them all (and had breast cancer). All of my follow up imaging takes a while to get scheduled, but any time I have needed a biopsy, it gets scheduled within a few days. And then is across health systems.

If you give some more info, I can try to help you. [/quote]

My biopsy is scheduled 41 days from my MRI.

To answer your question about the suspicious aspect, Birads-4 is described as this by the American Cancer Society: [b]"Suspicious abnormality – Biopsy should be considered."[/b]

"The findings in this category can have a wide range of suspicion levels. For this reason, this category is often divided further:

4A: Finding with a low likelihood of being cancer (more than 2% but no more than 10%)

4B: Finding with a moderate likelihood of being cancer (more than 10% but no more than 50%)

4C: Finding with a high likelihood of being cancer (more than 50% but less than 95%), but not as high as Category 5"

[/quote]

Do you know if your Birads is 4a, b, or c?

Your experience is wild to me. I have a lot of experience with biopsies and breast cancer and they always get me in for the biopsies ASAP. Have you tried calling and talking to another scheduler? They always save spots for people who need things like this. It is very different from scheduling a screening test.

Where are you located?
[/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