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DiscussionNew Malignancy vs. Fat Necrosis on MRI. Anyone have this conflict?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 30, 2023 | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
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So sorry for what you had to go through. I’m a retired nurse and while I want to think the best about the medical system, I’m also not naive to the potential of one hand feeding the other. I know there are ways to produce more definitive MRI readings in cases where it might be fat necrosis and not malignancy. They know how to compare the morphology of a lesion with the surrounding fat tissue to better determine if it is more likely fat necrosis or malignancy. With that, I’ve been very disappointed with the lack of detail in my breast MRI reports for a couple years, since I started reading more research papers. The radiologist was NOT very happy getting asked a lot of questions right before he did my last MRI-guided biopsy last December. They are definitely not used to it! It takes a lot of work being one’s own best advocate.