Posted 1/5/2013 11:21 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for your reply, Lanie.
They said that there's a "formula" that they use after asking some questions to determine whether women are high-risk. Supposedly, it also has to do with the age of your first period (mine was at 14), and first pregnancy (mine was at 23). In any case, I don't trust this "formula" they use.
I did ask if it would be the same doctor doing my biopsy that did my ultrasound, and it's going to be a difference doctor, thankfully. I didn't like the first doctor, because she made it sound like it was impossible that I had breast cancer. Before she did the ultrasound on me herself and after she looked at the technicians ultrasound images, she came in and said, "Well, I didn't see anything on the images which is what I expected". So, because I'm not what you consider "high risk", you don't expect anything? Not that I want cancer, but I want a doctor to expect breast cancer and to really, really look for it. That's a doctor that would be better safe than sorry. She was assuming. Based on what? I don't know. Ugh!