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[quote=Anonymous]Op here - nothing yet. Went for the third mammo, it was unbelievably hard. The tech surely attempted to make my breast as flat as paper. My pain threshold is pretty high and this gave me a run for my money. At the end of the second u/s the radiologist comes in to tell me that I need a biopsy. I tell him, "That's what I'm here for." In the end no biopsy that day - I pushed hard for it. The order (written by the radiologist who did the second opinion read of my films) called for additional images followed by a stereotactic biopsy. Their position was they needed additional images to "confirm" the need for a biopsy. They already had a diagnostic mammo from 2010 for comparison, the screening mammo, the most recent diagnostic mammo done Nov. 13th! Hey, I'm all for being thorough, but this seems a bit overboard.

The problem seems to be that the area in question is on the left outer quadrant of the breast, which is hard to get a good look at on a mammo (although she had me contort my body in all sorts of ways to try).

On the bright side, the additional wait has forced me to calm down about the entire situation.  December 17th is the definite biopsy date. [/quote]

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