Breast biopsies

[rjh18]

My wife had multiple biopsies due to irregular clustered calcifications. Is it unusual to have several biopsies? What does it mean? I am panicked. Any help is much appreciated.


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[maddison]

Hi i had that test years ago but it was okay just normal calcifications

 

[blueberries]

When you say several, do you mean several at one time or do you mean several over the course of years?

If at one time and if she had a stereotactic biopsy then yes, they normally take a few biopsies, maybe 4-8.

If over the course of years, it would be normal to take a biopsy every time irregular clustered calcifications are found since they are usually categorized as "suspicious."

 

[rjh18]

What the odds this benign?


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[mollyfin]

To find that out you should look at the mammogram report. They rate probability of malignancy among other things on a scale of 0-5.

 

[blueberries]

rjh - more info is needed to answer that, can you tell us anything else? Do you have a copy of the mammo report? Did she have a lump of any kind or what it only found on mammogram? What kind of biopsy did she have?

Calcifications come in all kinds of patterns, shapes, sizes. Some are perfectly harmless, some not so much.

 

[Fraser]

Hello rjh18. I'm sorry you are going through this kind of thing; it can be very anxiety producing. The people at this forum also suffer from anxiety and are equipped to help you address that facet of this situation. They aren't, however, medical professionals and many of your questions here are best served by a doctor that is familiar with your wife's case.