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What treatment should I expect when mass found in breast?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 23 7:46am | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
I think you need to make an urgent appointment at a cancer center, yourself. This is possibly the beginning of a period when you may have to be proactive and push things along yourself. The cancer medical system is very sluggish right now (post-COVID). Get a biopsy asap not just for medical reasons but for relief of very natural anxiety.
Try to get an appointment with an oncologist as well asap. Did they give you a BIRADS score?
You can often get a cancellation by calling every day at 10am.
I had a biopsy right after my diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound. You should not have to wait. And check the portal yourself (don't wait for MD's to call with results).
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BIRADS. 4A. I think all the errors and delays have caused enormous increase in anxiety. Also feeling like the only option is a place I do not want to go. I was told this place or 2 hrs away. I know that is not true as I have checked into other breast centers. My grandmother died from breast cancer, radical mastectomies, then bone cancer. Also a close friend ten years ago, Braca positive…..as am I. I just moved to this area three years ago and health care overall has been challenging. Did not expect it with this though.
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Bi-Rads. 4A. I have not talked to a lhysician at all yet, despite my messages and phone calls. This is a physician that, prior to this, contacts you about every lab or message. Then all of the sudden, MIA right when I truly need him. It took five days, and several attempts by me, for them to call me…and it was just to finally order the ultrasound. I had that Wednesday and the radiology report was sent online to him and me with 1/2 hour. Again, no response. It recommended MRI guided biopsy. Now it appears they sent ab order for u,trasou d guided biopsy to the one place I already told them I do not want to go for a biopsy. Lots of errors and lack of communication, leading to increased anxiety. Almost feeling paralyzed emotionally to schedule this biopsy at a place I do not trust. I have investigated other breast centers.