Suspicious Abnormality on Mammogram

[miztp]

I'm 47 years old needing a breast biopsy. I had a routine mammogram that showed a spot (no lump is felt)and then I had a spot compression with magnification . The findings were:
Presence of cluster of microcalcifications in the left outer quadrant. They are somewhat pleomorphic. Possibility of intraductal carcinoma. Bi-Rads Category 4. Is cancer probable with these findings and a bi-rad 4 ?. What is the % that it's cancer? I just want to be prepared for the biopsy findings.

[snowtree]

Welcome to this forum.  Let's see, what passed through my mind right away is what I like to say when things like this happens:  Everything happens for a reason.  Just the fact that you were playing with your 9 years old daughter, and she squished your breast, and then you had a brown discharge, and then you went to your doctor and in a mammo they found something else.   If that incident with your daughter wouldn't happened, then you would had never gone to see a radiologist for a mammo.  Just the fact that your mom had cancer in the breast could make you a higher statistic, but not necessarily.  It was time for you to have a mammo already, think of it that way.  Suppose they find something suspicious.  The earliest the better, besides, when your mom had the disease there weren't so many advances as there are now, think of the worst scenario AND THERE IS A CURE FOR IT, nowadays we are very fortunate women, besides, try not to think of the worst, because like your doctor put it "there is a remote chance only".  About the MRI, you don't have to have it if you don't feel comfortable in the machine, I've been sent to an MRI a bunch of times, and I don't want to, because I don't want to, and I say a firm NO!!!!!  No excuses or nothing, I tell them to find a different machine for me, and I always end up in a sonogram table, whether they like it or not.  They don't even question me, actually, so don't worry about that at all.  Tranquillity, tranquillity.  God Bless, let us know as soon as you can whatever it is.  We care.

[JoyGirl]

Good luck with your results tomorrow.  I will be praying for you and your family!

[snowtree]

I had written you a long message this morning, and I guess I pressed the wrong key and it went away.  I told you that the only thing that keeps me sane is one verse in the bible "Be Still And Know That I Am God.  I know that you must be nervous, waiting for the results, but hopefully everything will be fine.  May you be abundantly filled with the Holy Spirit.  Try to get a good night sleep, I know it must be difficult to put your mind at ease, but pray for God to give you the capacity to endure this.  We all know that waiting time is a real bummer, but you have learned to surpass more than most of us have.  Maa, we will be waiting for the results anxiously.  I will be praying for you at exactly 2:30.  May God give you the desires of your heart.  snowtree

[constantworry]

I had an update not long after I posted the above from my family practitioner.  He said he had received the mammo and US report and had discussed it with radiologist – both agreed an MRI would be the standard next step to look at the “two suspicious areas”.  I said I had two problems with the MRI:1.  I understood they gave a number of false positives (ie said there is cancer when there is not) which leads to stress and a biopsy anyway, and 2.  The claustrophobia.
I asked if I could skip that step and go straight for a biopsy and he said he would find that perfectly acceptable and that I'd have the results within 2 to 3 days of the procedure.
I asked how worried I should be and he said there is a “remote chance” it could be something serious (ie cancer), but that he would put that chance at 15% to 20%
He said the radiologist is not saying an MRI or biopsy is screaming out to be done but because of my symptoms:-  Nipple discharge, 2 "legions" on the right breast and my family history he thinks another step is required to be prudent.
I feel like I am in a bad dream - an inevitable one since my mum passed away 10 years after her original bc that I've always felt would happen to me.  My mind is running away with me and I am convinced I have cancer.  Then I take the next step and feel like once they tell me I have cancer, they'll tell me it's terminal, or not just in my breast.  I am absolutely petrified.
I have read so many stories today from this post, and I am so in awe of the strength I've seen posted especially from those people who have gone on to be diagnosed.  Please, please if anyone is reading this, I could really do with some help in digesting this and stopping the scary demons that are now in my head.

[constantworry]

I am 33 years old and have just had a mammogram and US following nipple discharge.  Docs r saying 98% chance statistically speaking that what they are seeing is fine but because of family history they are erring on the side of caution.  It started when my nine year old daughter and I were playing on her bed and she basically rolled over and completely squished my boob.  It discharged a brown liquid and over the next couple of days did the same, but only if I squeezed it.  Made myself go straight to the Drs on Monday.  Examined me, said no lumps could be felt, took blood and swab.  Saw how worried I was so said I could have a mammo and I also asked for ultra sound as I know that the two of them together are pretty accurate.

Had mammo and ultra that they say is showing a cysts and another "area" deeper in the breast, that whilst they feel both look harmless (I asked the radiologist and sonographer so many times to confirm that!) but as they don’t have previous mamos etc to go on and compare, and due to history (my mum had bc at 50) they said I have a couple of options:  1.  Investigate further, which could be surgery related or 2.  Leave it for 6 months and re-check.  They would go for number 2 if no family history and said that in those cases (where they ask for a re-check) 98% are nothing to worry about.

I can now feel what I think are cysts by my right arm pit (they have all the characterisations of what that would feel like), but I am truly petrified.

I have never felt so scared about anything in my entire life.  I have two children, aged 12, and 9 and all I can think is that this is what I've always feared and the disease is now in me.  I have read through this forum, and appreciate there are some here that have had worse initial results which then turned out to be fine but I am just so scared, and hope this place can offer some comfort at this time.

I am waiting for the report to reach my family practitioner before going in to discuss what needs to be done.

[maa64]

I got a copy of the first biopsy report, but tomorrow at 2:30 I will go in for my results for my mri biopsies of both breasts. I will let you know when I get more information. She said that my right breast looked a lot better on the second mri than on the first mri. Praise God. So far no staging was given that I can remember I will ask tomorrow. Thanks
Did we hear back from fxa123? guess all is well.