Breast Calcifications - Please HELP! - Cancer: Breast Message Board

epse · 01-15-2006, 10:27 PM

Has anyone been told that they had breast calcifications? What did you do ? Follow-up, treatment? ANY info. will be appreciated.

wiredqs · 01-16-2006, 08:41 AM

I didn't have them, but a friend of mine does. She is an 80+ woman and has to have mammograms about every 3 months to make sure they don't turn into anything else. They are not harmful, but are associated with a high risk for cancer.

reneeowens · 01-17-2006, 05:10 PM

I also have calcifications. As I understand the statistics, at least 80% of the time, calcifications are benign. Many, many women have calcifications in their breasts and these are normal. It's when the calcifications are grouped in a cluster or they change that there is more concern. Mine have been stable for the three years that I have been having mammograms. Generally I have a bilateral mammogram once a year, then 6 months later have a diagnostic mammogram (magnified views) on the side with calcifications.

lindiana53 · 01-18-2006, 11:37 AM

I have them on my right side. For a couple of years, I had mammograms at 6 month intervals. The doctors decided the calcifications weren't causing any problems, so I'm back to once a year mammograms.

kentuckywoman · 01-23-2006, 11:31 AM

I was told I had calcifications 6 months ago and was told to have another mammogram in 6 months. I went in last week for that *****. The radiologist was there at the hospital when I had the *****, and he ordered more pictures, then ordered an ultrasound. Of course they would not tell me anything, and had me a bit frantic. My family doctor called this morning and said I had calcifications and what the radiologist thinks is a cyst. My dr said these results warrant an MRI, so he is setting that up for me, getting insurance pre-determination. I have been reading the posts here for the last 6 months, and find that calcifications are very common. I have 2 sisters who have had breast cancer, and both of them have a daughter who had breast cancer.