PLEASE HELP ME DEFINE THIS.. I am not familiar with the vocabulary?!
Question: I have had breast cancer and was lucky enough to get ride of it... so i went to radiologist to check and now recieve a letter saying the following:
"the result of your breast imaging study performed on... show findings that you have strong likelihood of being benign.
Answers: I have had breast cancer and was lucky enough to get ride of it... so i went to radiologist to check and now recieve a letter saying the following:
"the result of your breast imaging study performed on... show findings that you have strong likelihood of being benign.
This is a good thing. Benign means non-cancerous. If it was cancerous, it would be malignant.
Benign is good. It means the cells are not cancerous.
Benign is good, means non-cancerous. However, keep having your check ups in case the cancer would try to come back, best to catch it early when there's a better chance for cure.
Congratulations, "benign" is a word you DO want to hear after seeing a radiologist...but you raised a GREAT point, too: why couldn't this letter have been in "plain English"?
You should write the radiologist a letter and ask the same question. You really should. Many specialists become so conditioned within their own world that they tend to forget that the rest of the world is made of "regular folks"! Maybe they will fix that "form letter".
If you think about it, it's really a wonderful thing they even NEED a "form letter" to tell folks they are okay!
Happy New Year!