Okay my question never showed up! Help with MRI!!?!
Question: I had an MRI done and need some help! My Doctor called me in and said that I need a biopsy done. I don't quite understand the MRI because I thought the reason I was gettting it was to see if it was cancerous or not and now I've done the MRI and they want to remove the lump. Problem is I have breast implants and the lump is on my implant and I have the chance of my implant being affected. The report says no sign of maligancy but need to remove the mass for histolgy. I'm quite confused and I am gonna get advice from another Doctor also. I guess my question is has anyone gotten a MRI and then had to deal with a biopsy and when you got the biopsy did it turn out to be cancer or not. My Doc says that MRI's are not 100% and that is why the Radiologist called her to recommend removal of the lump becaused I still have the chance of it being cancer! I appreciate any help I can get on this subject!
Answers: I had an MRI done and need some help! My Doctor called me in and said that I need a biopsy done. I don't quite understand the MRI because I thought the reason I was gettting it was to see if it was cancerous or not and now I've done the MRI and they want to remove the lump. Problem is I have breast implants and the lump is on my implant and I have the chance of my implant being affected. The report says no sign of maligancy but need to remove the mass for histolgy. I'm quite confused and I am gonna get advice from another Doctor also. I guess my question is has anyone gotten a MRI and then had to deal with a biopsy and when you got the biopsy did it turn out to be cancer or not. My Doc says that MRI's are not 100% and that is why the Radiologist called her to recommend removal of the lump becaused I still have the chance of it being cancer! I appreciate any help I can get on this subject!
Your other q did show up, just not sure how many people are on here right now that have any experience with your situation specifically.
I personally would recommend the biopsy. You can replace your implant and from what I understand that has to be done eventually anyways.
And there is a small chance that if it does have to be replaced do to the biopsy damaging it or from later removal or treatment that insurance will pay for it.
In response to the person below me..
A needle biopsy isnt always possible because of where the lump is or the density of the lump. Even if the shape or whatever isnt typically what is seen with cancer, that may have been the best option for your situation.
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Seldom is diagnostic imaging absolutely positive. Get the biopsy to be sure.
In short the MRI identifies the fact that there is an abnormal growth. Some growths can be identified by shape and other characteristics. In your case the growth is not identifiable by the MRI alone. In fact an MRI will not give an official diagnosis, the official diagnosis must be done by the pathologist. The biopsy is done so they can prepare a slide of the tissue and look directly at the cells making up the tissue. It would be wise of you to do this.
I had a lump about 8 years ago. They did an ultra sound & then told me they had to remove it. It was not cancer,( I had good insurance then) The next year I went back & they did another ultra sound, because they "felt" something, it was just the scar tissue. The interesting part is the guy doing the ultra sound looked at the one from the year prior & he told me, "see how this is almost perfectly round?, well when it's cancer there are "fingers" coming off the main mass. They didn't need to remove the lump to know that it was not cancer."
In my case they didn't even offer to do a biopsy, which is less riskey then putting you out to remove a lump. There are also blood tests they can do for cancer. Do some REAL research on the computer instead of asking a bunch of people who really don't know a whole lot...lol.