Unique intensely enhancing meaning on MRI?
I have another question. I have confirmed DCIS in R breast. MRI shows:
LEFT BREAST: Scattered enhancing foci. Unique intensely enhancing 5 mm focus superior posterior left breast.
What does that mean?
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Keep pestering your radiologists, breast doctor and family physician until someone explains it to you. My radiologists would not explain her findings only recommend multiple biopsies. I said no left and found care elsewhere.
I can not explain your results because I'm not a radiologist.
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@meeshodge i agree with @ambermcc keep at it until you get an answer. You have a right to find out, where we part ideas is at biopsy. Because you have confirmed DCIS in the right breast you are at a higher risk of cancerous findings in left. If this is me, I say get the biopsy. Because my original finding was similar, I am sure I am a bit biased here. Mine said there is a finding, round, lobular, and unconcerning. My doctor said “gee let’s take it out anyway”.
It was grade 3, her2 positive, invasive ductal carcinoma.
Biopsies give us information, if you aren’t getting enough information from imaging………………. “The only good decision is an informed decision” is the quote I was given from the best surgeon I have ever met.
Are you comfortable getting biopsies if they are needed to find out? Do you have a good relationship with your doctors so that you can push for what you need?
Self Advocacy is THE WAY to go when it comes to health!
If more info is settling for you, as it is for me, I’d have the area biopsied. My biopsies have been relatively painless though, so that also might impact my perspective.
(Since my ILC did not show up on mammo or ultrasound, I requested a biopsy and 5 days later was diagnosed. My diagnosis was followed by an MRI which showed the cancer, although smaller than it ended up being.)
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I agree with the above that the only real way to know is biopsy and even then sometimes surgical pathology shows something diff with biopsy. I've had imaging wrong multiple times and have even had upstaging from surgical vs biopsy. One big lesson I learned is that imaging technology is not the same at all places. You can have ultrasound at place A and then have it redone at place B with better machines (sometimes better radiologists) and end up with a completely different read. You can also request for your imaging to be re-read at another facility to get a second opinion.