Hi - my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer at her first appointment (she had a full response to treatment) 2 years ago and at present is fine. She had an ultrasound and the lady doing it said the lump looked sinister and she also had a needle biopsy. I seem to remember she was told that most people referred - it turns out not to be cancer but when it is cancer - they can often tell from the mamogram (my mum's was picked up on her routine mamogram). She waited a week for the definite diagnosis but was referred to the cancer unit straight away - my mum said the 2 days between getting her recall letter and being told she very likely had cancer was worse than actually being told she had. Hers was stage 3 and triple negative which is harder to treat but her response to treatment couldn't have gone better.

Hi - my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer at her first appointment (she had a full response to treatment) 2 years ago and at present is fine. She had an ultrasound and the lady doing it said the lump looked sinister and she also had a needle biopsy. I seem to remember she was told that most people referred - it turns out not to be cancer but when it is cancer - they can often tell from the mamogram (my mum's was picked up on her routine mamogram). She waited a week for the definite diagnosis but was referred to the cancer unit straight away - my mum said the 2 days between getting her recall letter and being told she very likely had cancer was worse than actually being told she had. Hers was stage 3 and triple negative which is harder to treat but her response to treatment couldn't have gone better.