Hi Tilliev,

7 days is about right...the NHS has a pathway where they have to deliver results / get treatment going ( if necessary ) within a certain time frame. Now you're 'on the radar' so to speak, things will move quickly. 

Just remember that statistically, it's either nothing, or very treatable.  You're right to stay busy. Just be as kind to yourself as you can. Everyone is here for you, whatever your news is xxx

Hi Tilliev

The waiting is the hard part, time for your mind to wander and possibly make you think the worst, you're still within the 10 days so try and keep your mind busy on other things until the results, I know easier said than done!

I've not had my biopsy results yet, they were taken on the 6th Jan, but I had CT and MRI scans booked after the biopsys, all the results will be given to me on the 12th Feb when I meet my consultant on my Pre Op when I will be told the diagnosis, I need the operation regardless of cancer or benign lump hence the delay in my case.

All the best and hoping for a good result for you..

Hey tilliev

I can totally sympathise, i had my biopsy on 24 jan and results apt is booked for 7 Feb. The wait feels endless. I am feeling a little more settled today, I've had a chat with myself. Hope you find out soon 

Lisa xx
 

Bless you all for getting back to me. 

I am hating the thought of having the private number ring when I'm on my own....its bloody ridiculous.

Popped out earlier with my partner and came home to NHS letter on the doorstep, my partner opened it whilst I went for a nervous wee....it was just a copy of the letter sent to my doctor!!, bloody hell. 

The strange thing is I'm probably 75% sure it's going to be ok. It's a pretty big year this year, turning 40!!. So got some beautiful getaways booked, I guess that's what's making this so daunting.  Treatment has come on so much I guess, that provides reassurance doesnt it?!      I'm such an independent woman, being ill and relying on people is awful for me, oh this is ridiculous....my head doesnt feel like my own lol. 

Mine is a lump I can quite easily feel, as did my partner and doctor. On seeing the consultant at Breast clinic she couldn't feel it, told me there was nothing there and it was just breast tissue but would send me to ultrasound for reassurance as I suffer a little with anxiety. The radiologist found it straight away, a complex or complicated cyst is what she refers to it as. Definitely something inside aswell as fluid, so a core biopsy was done. On going back to my consultant she actually congratulated me " well done, you were right and I was wrong"!!! 

Ohh god I'm rambling now! Sorry 

Thankyou all xx

I have just been told I will have to wait 4-6 weeks for biopsy results - is this right? 

Tillieve 

Hi I had a biobsy on my vulva ,and it took ten and a half weeks to get my results  ,with me constantly phoning and no one picking up my calls I even called my gp  to see if they had heard anything,but they hadn't. I had previously had breast cancer  I was one year on from having chemotherapy/ radiotherapy and I'd found another lump in the same breast I had had ,the cancer in,and I had to wait four weeks to be seen about that.  I was going spare, the lump in  my breast  turned out to be a cyst,thank goodness. But my results from my biobsy turned out to ge Vin 3 pre cancerous cells. I previously had  a precancerous polyp in my bowel and had had to have a right side resection of my bowel,so I was worried and still am,when the gynecologist said he's just going to moniter it,he's seen it twice,the first was when biobsy was taken then he left me for 3 months  said ill see you in 4 mths time  but when appointment came through for this August end of,it will actually be 6 mths.  Inbetween this my gp  as asked for me to be referred to a vulva  dermatologist, which I wasn't aware of till I got a call from the hospital telling me about it so I now have an appointment with the dermatology clinic at end of this month. Its not nice having to wait  so long, I hope you get your results quicker than I did,and it's  nothing serious.Everyone says try not to worry but it's not easy to do.Good luck witj evetything. 

Hi,

The waiting game is horrible and seems to drag by sooooo slowly. 

For all my tests I had a 2 week wait .

Hi
I recently had to wait 7 weeks for results after lumpectomy .. longest wait ever as the ongoing treatment plan depended on the results .. plus I have a wedding to be at so need to get on with Radiotherapy etc.

The NHS have been snowed under and staff losses so it is a waiting game.

It is easy to say be patient and we all know how hard that is but we are here for wach other.

Take care

As far as individual results go, only your team know if that's too long or about right in your case. Not all pathology is equal. Some need more specialised tests done, whilst other pathology might be back within days, and sometimes even hours. Again, it depends on many things. Some pathology gets sent to other hospitals, even different countries, so the waiting times are all based around that, and the capacity to test certain pathology at any given site/hospital.

Some cancers from what I've read are very complex to diagnose, and not always as simple as putting tissue under a microscope etc.

Hi 

I appreciate that for biopsies different tests might be needed but as far as I have been led to believe this one is very straightforward 

I appreciate the difficulties of the NHS but that doesn't alter the impact on me and many others of having to wait such a long time. 
Also the way the doctor responded when I queried the wait was I feel quite harsh - showed no empathy and gave no reassurance 

I have tried to see if I can get a biopsy privately but can't seem to find anything that says you can. Has anyone else explored this route?