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Anyone had to have a excision biopsy when other biopsy’s were benign?

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Morph22010 · 31/12/2025 15:59

story is was called back after routine mammogram. Something suspicious on mammogram, couldn’t see anything on ultrasound, got the feeling they were preparing me for a cancer diagnosis from things said. Had stereotatic core biopsy which came back benign so they then had to go back for a vacuum biopsy to get a larger sample which has also come back benign. They now want to do a biopsy under general anaesthetic to take out the whole area and test it becuase it looks so suspicious but is coming back benign. They said after the first biopsy it was just coming back as normal breast tissue on the result. Anyone had this before? I’m not overly worried as hopefully even if they find cancer they’ll have taken out the whole area anyway and it is probably very early stage but I’ve never heard of anyone having all these biopsies before, all other people I’ve know who went to breast clinic have either had cancer confirmed or confirmed as something innocent fairly quickly, I had the routine mammogram in October and have been back and forth since then- not complaining by the way as they are being very thorough but just not heard of anyone else having all this

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readingisallowed · 31/12/2025 16:33

I had a mammogram in the November during COVID.
Within 2 weeks I had biopsies taken. 3 weeks later I had an operation to remove the lump plus breast and
removal of my lymph nodes (they took the main plus 4 more)
2 weeks later another biopsy on my lymph node in my left arm was taken which showed cells.
Fast forward another 4 weeks I had another operation to remove more lymph nodes.
All in all I had over 60 lymph nodes removed. (Didn't know there was that many)
The surgeon did explain that they could have taken more biopsies before but as it was COVID they didn't
want me in the hospital more than needed.

Good luck with your treatment hopefully it's good news.

Switchd · 24/03/2026 12:52

How did it go in the end @Morph22010? I've had a similar experience, where alongside a clear tumour (which has been diagnosed), I've also had a couple more areas come up on mammogram and MRI that aren't biopsiable by ultrasound. I had a stereotactic vacuum assisted biopsy which didn't seem to go that well although I haven't actually got the results back yet. It seems like I might just have to have it excised whatever the results are as there is uncertainty around whether they have samples the right area.

Morph22010 · 25/03/2026 21:15

I had the op and they did a biopsy on the whole area and it came back as benign, it was a few diff benign conditions including radical scar. So I’m now completely discharged. From the mammogram it has been graded t4/5 which is apparently very likely to be cancer but lucky for me it wasn’t

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