Found a lump. One stop clinic-results on the day?

[BarnacleNora]

I’ve found a lump in my breast. Then gp has referred me to a ‘one stop’ clinic next week. They’ve said I’ll get ‘some’ results on the day. Has anyone got any experience of this? I’m seeing my parents the week after and I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep quiet. I don’t want to worry them if it’s nothing but if it’s ’it looks like it could be something but we’ll wait for the biopsy’ that’s almost as bad! My gran died of cancer last year and my dad is a survivor of prostate cancer and my mum didn’t cope enormously well. I’m 39 so able to deal with it but she’ll panic. I just want to reduce the panic without having the news appear out of the blue!

Thank you

Bless you, it’s a horrible waiting time for you, but once things move forward it will feel less stressful when you have answers.

in my experience, I had an examination, a mammogram and a biopsy on the same day. Got the results a week later.

try not to worry… easier said than done, but most lumps are not cancer.

Yes I did go to a one stop shop. I should have received the results on the day including biopsy results but due to the number of people and my appointment being at 11 they ran out of time and I had to come back a couple of days later for. Having said that even without the definitive biopsy results I was told by the Dr that all indications were it was a malignant tumour and support offered. I went through 9 months of treatment including surgery and chemo and 11 years later no issues whatsoever.

So good luck and remember the vast majority of lumps found in the breast are not cancer and even those that are very treatable.

My experience on the day was surgeon checks, then mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy (if ultrasound shows its needed). It's not a conclusive result until biopsy comes back but its very likely. I'm pretty sure the radiologist knows what they are looking at when they do the ultrasound but are not able to say until the biopsy comes back.
Hope it's clear, the wait is the hardest 💐

Yes, I had this. I was actually diagnosed while under ultrasound but also got my official diagnosis the same day. It was a whole day thing. Appointment in the clinic. Scan a couple of hours later (ultrasound rather than mammogram as I was pre-menopause, hence denser breast tissue) with biopsy. 2nd clinic appointment another couple of hours later. Basic treatment plan was laid out then based on the preliminary biopsy results (although this was amended later when they got more precise biopsy details) and given contact details for the Breast Care Nurse team.

It was gruelling but knowing everything the same day was the best thing.

(Just a point for you, if they're doing more than a needle biopsy, ask for a local anaesthetic. They'll be fine with that and it stops you having to worry about pain or flinching when they do it. The thing they do it with makes quite a loud noise (bit like a staple gun, although it looks nothing like a staple gun).)

I went to my appointment alone having read a lot of people saying it’d be a long drawn out process.

i phoned DH an hour and a half after he’d dropped me off, in floods of tears.
fortunately we only live twenty minutes
from the hospital!

but you must remember that a vast majority of referrals DONT result in a cancer.

what you’re going through now is by far the worst part.

Just take deep breaths and be thankful that ‘IF’ you have BC it’s one of the most heavily researched and funded that you can get.

as my consultant told me just last week
’arent you lucky you have BC’ 😝

I went to a one stop shop with mine. I did have to wait a week for the biopsy results but they did tell me there and then that they thought it was cancer.

Thank you everyone. I’m mostly fairly neutral about the prospect of what it could be, taking the attitude that I’ll worry when I have something to worry about! But I do like to know TIMELINES and PROCEDURES and that’s the bit that’s annoying me (deferred worry I suppose or the bit that I can focus on!) Soinds like it could go either way as to whether I get an indication or not on the day so I’ll just have to take it as it comes! I’ve had to take a really late afternoon appointment because my son has a clinic appointment we’ve waited literal years for in the morning and there was no way I was rescheduling that. So that’ll probably defer results as well, it being so late in the day! Ah well, I’ll get answers when I get answers, thank you so much to all of you for responding

I have been 3 times, our local clinic is very efficient, results back the same day if biopsy taken…mine have all been cysts. It’s one of the bits of the NHS that functions extremely well! There may be a lot of back and forth on the day depending on whether you are having USS/ mammogram/ consultant / biopsy etc. so you may be there a good while, take supplies!

I did but I had to go to a private clinic, the NHS one near me isn’t a “one stop”. Privately, I had ultra sound, mammogram and results from the consultant (cyst both times, the vast majority of lumps are) within an hour. Sending a hand hold op, I know how scary it is but the vast majority of lumps are not sinister. Good luck xx