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Surgeons , Radiologists and Biopsies

 Surgeons , Radiologists and Biopsies  After seeing my  GP I went home and I still couldn’t believe this was happening. I kept feeling the lump  to see if it was there each night, I guess I just thought it would go away. It wasn’t very long before I got an appointment to see the surgeon. He went over the scans and explained what he was seeing and said there was a second area in the scan that looked a little wrong and he wanted that area mamogramed  and biopsied as well if it was in fact another lump. He sat and explained all about lumpectomy, what’s involved, risks and that he felt sure it was cancer but it had to be proven first through the results of a biopsy.  The biopsy was to be a in a few days time and I was nervous and scared to say the least, not of being told I had cancer but of what the procedure would be like. I went in for a mammogram first on some new and fancy 3D mammogram machine. I was then sent up for them to do ultrasound and to do the biopsy. They were unsure