I am not sure if you had a breast pathologist read your initial slides, so if you wanted a second opinion on your diagnosis, I would recommend getting a second opinion from a breast pathology specialist to either confirm the presence of atypical hyperplasia or not. It’s easy to get a copy of your pathology report and at the bottom of that report you can see the pathologist’s name and can search that person online. It is the pathologist’s diagnosis of “atypia” that is driving further surgical biopsy. Your radiologist or surgeon is simply responding to that diagnosis and the current standard of care.

Let me know if you need any more assistance.

Thomas J. Lawton MD