Suspicious area Bi-rad 2 or 3: Do I advocate for a biopsy or wait?

thank you i go today to meet with the surgeon and im pushing for a biopsy ..the change in this one area from BIRAD 2 to a BIRAD 3 in 4 months isnt ok with me .
xo

Hello @whitney2326 when I was first diagnosed 18 years ago. There were a lot of reasons why no one wanted to take this lump seriously. I was too young, it was too high on the chest to be breast tissue, breast cancer doesn’t hurt, then when I finally got a scan; something, but round and lobular, not cancer. After hearing all these things from medical professionals in a rural area, I decided it really was nothing. Another six or eight months later it was quite large, I had needle core biopsy that came back normal, a month later the surgeon (a friend) who did the biopsy came to my business and said “I don’t like it, and I want to take it out and put it under a microscope”.
If I had thought to push for it, or even one of he initial conversations had resulted in a diagnosis, I might or might not have been saved a lot of grief. I have to believe things happen for a reason. I am still here and it might have not changed a thing. What I hate most is I look back and think I could have done more.
Do you have a plan for getting this biopsy if you decide to push for it? Are you interested in trying to get in to the breast clinic at Mayo?

My advice to you is to get a biopsy now. I had already had cancer in the right breast 11 years before (lumpectomy in right breast) and something was noticed on my mamo my in the left breast. I immediately went to my surgeon and he sent me for an MRI which came birads 3...go back in 6 months. I followed their directions and went for a second MRI in 6 months and it said birads 2. So I was told to get another mamo in 6 months and go from there. I insisted on a biopsy and was able to get one within a week. The biopsy showed that I had invasive duct all carcinoma. It was caught very early, but I suspect it became invasive during that wait. The fact is that I was misdiagnosed both times. The same radiologist read both MRIs....he teaches at a medical school too! Get a biopsy now. Waiting can really be a game changer. If I had kept on waiting, I could be dead now.

My advice to you is to get a biopsy now. I had already had cancer in the right breast 11 years before (lumpectomy in right breast) and something was noticed on my mamo my in the left breast. I immediately went to my surgeon and he sent me for an MRI which came birads 3...go back in 6 months. I followed their directions and went for a second MRI in 6 months and it said birads 2. So I was told to get another mamo in 6 months and go from there. I insisted on a biopsy and was able to get one within a week. The biopsy showed that I had invasive duct all carcinoma. It was caught very early, but I suspect it became invasive during that wait. The fact is that I was misdiagnosed both times. The same radiologist read both MRIs....he teaches at a medical school too! Get a biopsy now. Waiting can really be a game changer. If I had kept on waiting, I could be dead now.

Hello @whitney2326 when I was first diagnosed 18 years ago. There were a lot of reasons why no one wanted to take this lump seriously. I was too young, it was too high on the chest to be breast tissue, breast cancer doesn’t hurt, then when I finally got a scan; something, but round and lobular, not cancer. After hearing all these things from medical professionals in a rural area, I decided it really was nothing. Another six or eight months later it was quite large, I had needle core biopsy that came back normal, a month later the surgeon (a friend) who did the biopsy came to my business and said “I don’t like it, and I want to take it out and put it under a microscope”.
If I had thought to push for it, or even one of he initial conversations had resulted in a diagnosis, I might or might not have been saved a lot of grief. I have to believe things happen for a reason. I am still here and it might have not changed a thing. What I hate most is I look back and think I could have done more.
Do you have a plan for getting this biopsy if you decide to push for it? Are you interested in trying to get in to the breast clinic at Mayo?

@whitney2326, @colleenyoung
Looking back on a prior mammograms was birad3. However, the one I had when I found the actual lump was birads5. I wish I had asked for a biopsy at birad3 - it might have been a game changer. The one thing I was happy about was that I pushed for an MRI of the breasts which also noted a second tumor in the same breast but the opposite side.