I've been seen by the breast clinic for two incidents, one when I was 17 and one was the current incident at 41.
Whether or not they will be able to tell you anything there and then is dependent on what they find. If they examine you and believe it to be something like fibroadenoma they will be able to tell you there and then and put your mind at rest.
My breast clinic doesn't do mammograms and biopsies, you are referred up to another part of the hospital for that. So this time around they did an ultrasound, obviously saw a lump the size and presentation of which made them sure it was cancer. They didn't tell me this at the time but they phoned the other department (with me in earshot) and asked for an urgent mammogram and biopsy and were there any cancellation slots that I could be fitted into. So I had a pretty good idea of how confident they were that it was not only cancer but that it was already quite advanced.
They could just as easily have found a lump that wasn't 'classic' and that they didn't think was necessarily cancer but that they needed to rule out cancer for. That is a fairly common scenario.
So, as others have said too, it really depends on how your lump appears to them.
I will be hoping it turns out to be something innocuous.
I've been seen by the breast clinic for two incidents, one when I was 17 and one was the current incident at 41.
Whether or not they will be able to tell you anything there and then is dependent on what they find. If they examine you and believe it to be something like fibroadenoma they will be able to tell you there and then and put your mind at rest.
My breast clinic doesn't do mammograms and biopsies, you are referred up to another part of the hospital for that. So this time around they did an ultrasound, obviously saw a lump the size and presentation of which made them sure it was cancer. They didn't tell me this at the time but they phoned the other department (with me in earshot) and asked for an urgent mammogram and biopsy and were there any cancellation slots that I could be fitted into. So I had a pretty good idea of how confident they were that it was not only cancer but that it was already quite advanced.
They could just as easily have found a lump that wasn't 'classic' and that they didn't think was necessarily cancer but that they needed to rule out cancer for. That is a fairly common scenario.
So, as others have said too, it really depends on how your lump appears to them.
I will be hoping it turns out to be something innocuous.
