I am sorry to hear that you have a four week wait for results. What type of cancer were your tests for? It can take longer for some types than it does for others.
I hope that your results are favourable when they do come through.
Please let us know how you get on. We are always here for you.
My biopsies are for endometrial cancer. I am hoping that the 4 week timescale will prove to be just caution and the results will be back before that. What are other peoples experiences of biopsy timescales?
I'm afraid that I know very little about endometrial cancer. I've had 2 bouts of breast cancer. However, if you go to the blue banner at the top of this page and click the search facility, insert endometrial cancer in the box and click. This should bring up previous posts about the subject and you might find out how long others have had to wait for their results.
If you have no joy there why not phone the nurses on this site and ask them? They are available Mon - Fri, from 9.00am - 5.00pm. Their number is 0808 800 4040 and it is free to phone.
I hope that you manage to get the answers you want via these sources.
from what I gather it can be any length of time and there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the timescale although I’m sure there is a process in place somewhere! Before you read my experience let me emphasise that it is not typical. Others have had good news soon and later and vice versa.
i had a biopsy for thickened endometrium. It took three weeks for my results. My hospital letter said a letter within foutrteen days or if considered serious a phone call within five days. Unfortunately good Friday fell on the fourth day. So I waited two days beyond Easter Monday and nothing. The waiting as you know was agony. I jumped every timethe phone rang. Next I waited for the letter. Waiting in pieces until the post arrived half way through the afternoon. Then on the fourteenth day I got a phone call from the consultants secretary quite out of the blue. She told me he had some cancellations the following Friday, four days away and I had an appointment then. She also told me that it was policy not to give results over the phone or by letter. When I arrived at the clinic, there was no one there, no patients, or nurses. Then a McMillan nurse arrived checked who I was and said she was waiting for the consultant. By then I had guessed the results. I was told I had low grade endometrial cancer. I’ve had an mri and another two weeks wait for results and finally got an operation date today.
waiting is tough whatever the timescale. I got through it by talking to my family, friends and people on here. I’d say don’t read anything into how little or long you have to wait. Certainly don’t read google if you can stop yourself. Keep yourself busy and in those dark moments, that we all have, talk to people on here. They have been my rock! I got through it and am in a much better place now I know and there is a plan. I know there will still be bad moments because it wasn’t the result I wanted. But as my daughter says....it is what it is and any amount of worrying won’t change that. When I’m being sensible that’s what I tell myself. When I’m not, friends on here have listened to me rant and got me through. We all find our own way, you will find yours.
Same here Dianne. The doc said 7- 14days which is up on Tue but now I have read Sundial post I am more nervous. But as it has been said we can't do anything and what will be will be. X
im so sorry. I didn’t mean to make you more nervous. I did say my experience is unusual. I know someone who waited the same length of time as I did and the results were good.
I only meant to point out that it’s ok and natural to feel nervous and anxious. I feel terrible now. I have to say that my experience from that results day have been much more positive and both doctors and nurses have been brilliant. Please don’t feel more nervous.......
and dont forget people usually get their results when promised.
im so sorry. I didn’t mean to make you more nervous. I did say my experience is unusual. I know someone who waited the same length of time as I did and the results were good.
I only meant to point out that it’s ok and natural to feel nervous and anxious. I feel terrible now. I have to say that my experience from that results day have been much more positive and both doctors and nurses have been brilliant. Please don’t feel more nervous.......
and dont forget people usually get their results when promised.
Hi Johig. Where I went for biopsies etc was never less than three weeks, most of the time appointments were four weeks apart. Sorry! Seems to depend so much on the hospital where you are being treated and also the time of year.
Carry on with everything, or maybe take up something to distract you.
I know about the wait, but I don't allow it to reach to the tapping finger part, even now I have a 3 month wait to see if I'm cured, yeah I could pay private for an MRI to find out myself but either way nothings gonna change it is what it is.
So I'd say, try and build a plan on if it's neg or positive, this way if your lucky, then you have travelled the line in mind, and this always helps to prioritize life as a whole and see things differently, I wish you all the luck in the world.
Oh please dont feel bad it was just the way I was feeling. I couldnt wait any longer so I rang today and all good. Inconclusive around what caused the bleeding. Thank you all for your support it helped and got me through the last few days. Good luck with you treatment. Take care x
