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.

[mistyb361]

You and your family are in my prayers today.  I am currently working on a women's event where speakers share their stories of overcoming trials and tribulations.  I pulled out a folder I had kept from a class I once took in college.  It is filled with poems and short stories written by women as they went through life changes.  Here is a relevant poem included in this compilation written by Karen Brodine and titled 'May 1986':

'May 1986'

Here, on that new strange plain
where my left breast is no longer
where the angry scar blanches out
to a thin reminder
Here, my heart is closer now
to my lover's ear, listening
to the sun lazing its warm palm
on my pale skin, closer now
to the traffic blare
to shouts of street people
to the rasp of each day,
the rough, practical tones.
My heart is closer now.
Hear its steady, stubborn drum.

                   -by Karen Brodine

So, Tam, as your children lay their head against you, you can tell them that now, your heart is that much closer to them.  
We, as women, are so strong and I just know you will be fine.  Feel free to cry because, that, while some see as a sign of weakness, is actually one of the incredible strengths women have over men.  We allow ourselves to grieve which helps us heal.  Just remember, if you can cry, you can live.  So cry and we will cry with you...And we will rejoice in life with you, as well.    

[HelenV]

Very sad to read you will be going, but I do understand.  I also felt very much the way you do when my troubles first started, didn't want to talk to anyone, see anyone, read or do much of anything.  I do feel better now but still worry about the ovarian cyst situation which I hope and pray will be okay. Will be thinking and praying for you to get better soon and to come back and fill us in on what you are doing.  I will post updates just in case you "pop in".  All the best to you and your family.

[snowtree]

I want to say that you are the best friends I've ever had for the last 46 years.  I'll miss each one of you in a special way.  Did I say each one of you?  That's right.  With all my regrets I am leaving this forum for a long while, due to the fact that I've been suffering from this massive headaches, nauseas and vomiting when I wake up.  They are really bad, I spotted like what seems to be a swollen vain, in the right side of my head (close to the forehead), don't know what it it.  I went like about 4 months ago to the eye doctor and she sent me new prescriptions and did a special test, to see if there was something going on inside my head, she didn't find anything, lol.  I can't read books (including the bible), read messages in the computer, without paying the consequences the next morning.  I noticed that I am a little sadder then ever, I seem to withdraw a lot from things that I love and liked, including my family, I think really hard, worry about everyone and try to find a solution to everything.  The waiting for the biopsy results did take a toll on me, after all.  I left me a little numb, I don't know what's happening to me, and I can't even read about it.  My husband tells me that he talks to me sometimes, and that I am absent minded, my mother calls and I don't want to answer the phone.  Please, don't think depression, because one knows when she is depressed, is a different feeling, I feel as if something weird is going to happen, like I'm always expecting something, maybe is everything that I've gone through this year.  But no, I don't like to put the word depression everytime that one feels sad or withdrawed.  Anyways, I want to tell you that I read each one of your blogs, slowly and thought about each one of them, as if you were writing it to me in a special letter.  You guys are very important to me, today and tomorrow I'll go for my next headache and nausea, but I will write each one of your names, dates of biopsies, mastectomy, sonograms, mammos and every procedure you are worried about, and I will put it in my prayer book, because I don't want to think, that just because I can't read anymore, that I don't care anymore.  I have a word, I am not a lier, I believe there's a God 100% of the time, I believe His Son is Jesus 100% of the time, and I believe in the Holy Spirit, and I will be praying for each one of you, each of your problems to the God that I believe in, in His Son's name for all of you, please, never think that I forgot you, because I won't, I know each one of you and your personalities, and I like them all.  You are the most truthful, honest people I've ever known, this was a time of no back stabbing, no rolling eyes, no hypocrisy.  It was just sincerety, that's why all of you were worth each headache I had, but now I must stop.  If if the future I feel better, I will come back again.  So long and God Bless, a friend in Christ.

[Hey Judie]

Just a quick post before I'm off to work.  I received my results early yesterday. BENIGN!! It was hard to believe after all the worry, how quickly, the word NORMAL brought it all to an end. After reading what some of you are having to go through, I feel guilty to reveal my good news. My prayers include all of you. Take care.
Judie

[maa64]

I am praying for you! Take care. I will pray for your family. Try to focus on what you do have - that's what I do as I go through this nightmare. You have a wonderful supportive husband who loves you - and that my dear is more than most. Take care. Going to pray for you right now.

[ziggy123]

My prayers are with you!