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[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.

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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"

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