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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here again: My fear has calmed some. I thank everyone sending their prayers and good wishes. This wait is agonizing! I don't yet have a date for the biopsy. I've read about some women having all in the same day - mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy. I wish I had asked my doctor about this up front. Maybe she could have ordered it that way, I don't know.

I must be different from a lot of others. For me information is power. It doesn't increase any anxiety that's already presenting. In this instance, I have found it helpful to allay my fears. Women are diagnosed with breast cancer and many have successful treatment. After reading so many stories of these courageous women, I feel more confident that I can handle any news. It did throw me off balance to read the "highly suspicious of left breast cancer" on the paper with my name.

Reading is also giving me what I feel may be helpful tips should I get that dx. Like the biopsy, if I had read that sooner I would have asked and could've possibly avoided this torturous wait. I like to go in to an appointment fully loaded, so I can ask thoughtful, informed questions based on what the doctor tells me. I'm not the type to leave my health in someone else's hands.

Still waiting on my BRCA results, it's been nearly three weeks. My paternal grandmother had b/c young and died of pancreatic cancer. That's the only hx to my knowledge. But I'm not close with that side of the family, so if someone else was dx I really wouldn't know.

Thanks again everyone - I promise to post my results. 
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PP breast cancer survivor again.  There are different kinds of biopsies.  The one on the office is a needle biopsy.  Since you don't have a lump(right?) they will either have to do a mammogram guided biopsy (where they remove a tiny bit of tissue - I've had a couple of those) or a surgical biopsy.  if they suggest a surgical biopsy I would push them on whether it is really necessary.

I didn't mean to suggest that knowledge is a bad thing, only that you need to make sure the knowledge you read is correct.  [/quote]

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