Breast biopsy and metal chip?

When you had your breast lump biopsy did they insert a metal chip or not? And what did the biopsy results turn out to be?

iv never really heard of a chip being used before!

 

Im 28 and I had a biopsy 2 days ago and have a results appointment booked for the 26th, just like everyone else I'm really anxious about it.

  • Hi Cat42 

     

    I hope my reply will take away some of your anxieties. 
    a marker is usually placed on a tumour BUT that does not mean it is a cancerous tumour by all means it also marks a place of uncertainty so for instance it can be easily seen again in the case of it not being cancerous straight away (instead of all that roaming around). 
     

    I hope this helps, I do understand your anxious. 
     

    Liz x

  • Thank you for your reply, my radiologist did the ultrasound and said it was a solid lesion not a fluid filled cyst so she was going to do a biopsy and that she would probably insert a metal chip followed by a mammogram.

    she then did the biopsy and said that she had decided not to insert the metal chip.

     

    im trying to decide if that's a good thing haha.

     

    i know I just need to wait and see, it doesn't matter how much googling I do I still have to just wait for the results!

     

    but it's nice to write my feelings down somewhere.

     

    thank you Liz x

  • Hi  cat42. I am in the same boat as you. Just had a vaccume biopsy under mamogram and had a metal clip inserted. I too have results on 26th. Was it a lump you found?

    Mine was a lump which turns out to be cysts but they saw calcifications near the nipple so they have biopsoed that whole area. 

    Thinking of you... Its a horrid time waiting. X

  • Hey KT79,

    mine was a lump, they called it a "solid lesion" during my biopsy, so unfortunately not a cyst. No calcifications for me.

    in all my googling since I found the lump I'd never seen anything about a metal insert before!

     

    i know, I'm ok most of the time, I just get these waves of panic occasionally. The 26th seems so far away but too near at the same time haha.

  • hello Cat42  i hope everything goes well

     did you get your results from the biopsy ?