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BIRAD 5 Surgical oncology consult, even with normal biopsy result?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 1 12:36pm | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
@leen83 unfun about your birthday, sorry to hear.
Probably it's going to come back as something, given the distortions and the other factors you mentioned. If they are giving it a BIRAD 5 they have signed off on the fact that they see it as having a 95% change of malignancy, so they are preparing for that.
Once they can get it out they will want to get the findings ASAP to your Primary Care Doc so they can get in touch with whomever you may need for oncology.
Treatment-wise it'll depend on what's best to get it all gone the easiest -- if you can use hormone blockers or is surgery is enough or do you have to go old school with chemo and radiation and things. Luckily there are great folks here who have been through it.
Let us know how it goes.
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Thank you @seathink for all the info - it really helps more than you know. I find a lot of comfort in information and knowing a possibility in what to expect, even if it’s not sunshine and rainbows.
I would rather prepare for the worst and hope for the best - going in knowing that there’s a high likelihood they’ll find something so it doesn’t hit me like a bus - all the discordance is awful.
I’m actually now distrusting of positive news with this whole ordeal - Its been an endless cycle since April of getting told bad news, then good news, then a “just kidding” we take the good news back. I never used to answer the phone from unknown numbers but now I anxiously answer every single call in case it’s from someone on my medical team.