Needle biopsys were done on both tumors as well as mammograms, ultrsounds, and MRI. I would like for my surgeon to sit down and discuss it with me, but another two hundred dollar consultation seems a lot. Prior to the surgury she prompty answered my emails.... always within twenty four hours. She woudl not discuss anything after the final biopsy without another appointment. At the followup appointmtnet, she hurried out of the room when I asked about the biopsy report... saying .. oh they got all of at the biopsy. I appreciate what she did for me and I am paying her every month as scheduled. I want to be reassured by her or somebody that the mastectomy was the right surgury and the biopsys were done correctly. I am worng to want to know this? I am a registered nurse. I would like to be able to find some more information about tubular cancers. Info seems limited on the internet. Thanks
Hi there.
Tubular breast cancer is a variant of invasive ductal cancer, but carries a better course and prognosis than the usual invasive ductal cancer. You cannot, or it is very hard to diagnose a tubular cancer based on the biopsy alone, and it will really take a large specimen (such that acquired after a mastectomy or lumpectomy) for a pathologist to confidently diagnose a tubular cancer.
It is also very hard to tell where the other tumor went. It might have been removed by the biopsy indeed, or there may really have been only one tumor to start with (especially if the tumors are just demonstrated through mammogram or ultrasound which can have margins of error).
Regards.