Hello i.love.life and thanks for posting,

I can understand you having questions, but I can't really provide certain answers, I don't know where this small lump has gone. Hopefully, your doctors can explain when you next see them or perhaps you can contact your breast care nurse.  

I expect the marker-clip was to pin point the area where the biopsy was taken from for comparison with your previous tests and hence the mammogram before you left. The biopsy was probably based on the previous imaging and taken to try and get as much information as is possible to add to what they already know and for the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to review. 

MDTs have medical specialists from different disciplines including surgeons, radiologists (who read and interpret scans and X-rays), pathologists (who examine tissue in the laboratory and identify diseases) and oncologists (who oversee medical cancer treatments) and other health professionals as well, including the breast care nurses. They will go over all your test results and put them together before coming up with your treatment plan.

Waiting for treatment is a horrible time and everyone worries about their cancer spreading - not that knowing this helps much, but it's not uncommon to think this way.  Bear in mind that if cancer cells do escape, they often don't survive and that breast cancer treatment for triple negative disease usually includes chemotherapy that works on the whole body, tackling any potential stray cancer cells that may have escaped.  

Over the next couple of weeks do your best to look after yourself and do things that might help to counter the inevitable stress of waiting. 

Feel free to give us a call on Freephone 0808 800 4040, we are here weekdays (9-5) but closed on 3rd January as it's a bank holiday. 

Take care,

Julia

Hello i.love.life and thanks for posting,

I can understand you having questions, but I can't really provide certain answers, I don't know where this small lump has gone. Hopefully, your doctors can explain when you next see them or perhaps you can contact your breast care nurse.  

I expect the marker-clip was to pin point the area where the biopsy was taken from for comparison with your previous tests and hence the mammogram before you left. The biopsy was probably based on the previous imaging and taken to try and get as much information as is possible to add to what they already know and for the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to review. 

MDTs have medical specialists from different disciplines including surgeons, radiologists (who read and interpret scans and X-rays), pathologists (who examine tissue in the laboratory and identify diseases) and oncologists (who oversee medical cancer treatments) and other health professionals as well, including the breast care nurses. They will go over all your test results and put them together before coming up with your treatment plan.

Waiting for treatment is a horrible time and everyone worries about their cancer spreading - not that knowing this helps much, but it's not uncommon to think this way.  Bear in mind that if cancer cells do escape, they often don't survive and that breast cancer treatment for triple negative disease usually includes chemotherapy that works on the whole body, tackling any potential stray cancer cells that may have escaped.  

Over the next couple of weeks do your best to look after yourself and do things that might help to counter the inevitable stress of waiting. 

Feel free to give us a call on Freephone 0808 800 4040, we are here weekdays (9-5) but closed on 3rd January as it's a bank holiday. 

Take care,

Julia