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Has anyone had MRI suspicious for malignancy but negative Mammo + US?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Dec 22, 2023 | Replies (53)Comment receiving replies
Thank you for sharing your story. It is so hard to make sense of differing opinions and test results. I wanted to share with you my experience last week during a conversation with my surgeon, following my mammo+US, in the lead-up to a MRI-guided biopsy. I commented that the axillary lymph nodes on US were fine. He explained, however, that you can still have cellular metastasis in lymph nodes that will simply not show up on ultrasound. My surgeon and the radiologist automatically recommended MRI-guided biopsy for a BIRADS-4 on my annual MRI, which is always done with and without contrast. I'm so glad you are about the get your MRI follow-up. Do let us know how that turns out. Praying for the best outcome.
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Thank you so much! With my last MRI very concerning, I am hoping to do a MRI guided biopsy if the next one is concerning, as well. A biopsy was done on one lesion which came back as a necrosis. Lymph nodes were not biopsied even though they were suspicious on MRI. An ultrasound was done a few days later and the lymph nodes were just “fluffy” and didn’t “look” concerning according to the other radiologist.
I just don’t know who to believe because no one can come to an agreement! I would think if the MRI has characteristics of cancer (hypoechoic, washout, rapidly lighting up, etc…) then more would’ve been done.