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Can Breast Microcalcifications Be Treated With Lumpectomy?

I am having a biopsy Tuesday for Microcalcifications , deemed suspicious , they are in one cluster and a couple more less than a centimeter away . How likely is that to be cancer and if so can they treat it by doing a lumpectomy instead of Mastectomy?
Tue, 26 Dec 2017
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Dear mam. Since the biopsy is suspicious. I hope mammogram is done. We need to look into the size of the lesion.

If its just focal, it can be removed by lumpectomy with wide local excision and we need to ask the pathologist to look into margins of the specimen. If margins are clear, nothing to worry. If affordable, better that you get a FDG PET scan done and look if its abnormal. If focal same lumpectomy can be done with follow up.

If Microcalcifications are diffuse, we need to c if its benign r malignant, extent of involvement and later take a call on how much of brest needs to be remove.
Hope this information is helpful
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Can Breast Microcalcifications Be Treated With Lumpectomy?

Dear mam. Since the biopsy is suspicious. I hope mammogram is done. We need to look into the size of the lesion. If its just focal, it can be removed by lumpectomy with wide local excision and we need to ask the pathologist to look into margins of the specimen. If margins are clear, nothing to worry. If affordable, better that you get a FDG PET scan done and look if its abnormal. If focal same lumpectomy can be done with follow up. If Microcalcifications are diffuse, we need to c if its benign r malignant, extent of involvement and later take a call on how much of brest needs to be remove. Hope this information is helpful Thank u