I could be misremembering...

But I thought that you went in to see someone and they told you they were most likely benign, but they could do an ultrasound if you would like.

You wanted them to do that so they did, and they told you they were most likely benign. They said they would be more sure they were benign if they did a biopsy, but that since you were very low risk:

> I don't have any special risk factors for cancer.

They were probably benign. But you wanted them to do the biopsy and so they did the biopsy. Then the results came back inconclusive (because they messed up the biopsy somehow - happens sometimes) but they said that they were probably benign. But you wanted them to do another biopsy and now... They aren't getting back to you.

They are probably benign. The doctors have told you that already.

> If I do have fibroadenomas though, my risk for cancer doubles.

What is your risk of cancer without fibroadenomas?
What is your risk of cancer with fibroadenomas?

If you are talking about 40% risk without and 80% with then that is indeed a significant difference. If you are talking about 0.000001% risk without then doubling that risk isn't so very significant...

> I've read stories of people getting cancer in their twenties.

I've read about people getting hit by busses in their twenties and developing parkinsons and getting HIV. How many stories? Then consider how many other people in their twenties don't have cancer.

> I think the worse. I don't know how to change my thinking.

A therapist could show you how to change your thinking so that if you wanted to change your thinking (at times like these) you would be able to do that.

With medicine... With tests... They have to weigh the pros and cons. There are pros and cons for giving you a biopsy:

Pros
-If they are cancer and they find and treat them early then how many quality life years is that adding to your life?

Cons
-Since they will be inserting a needle (or two) into your breasts there is a chance that something will go wrong with that and you will get an infection and there is also the mental stress of having such a procedure.
-It is unlikely that you do have cancer (so the pro is most likely irrelevant)
-The procedure costs money both with respect to materials and with respect to specialists and lab technitions time. How many people are waiting on biopsies? How many of those people are at a significantly higher risk of having cancer?

Re the other cite... Yes I think I understand why they couldn't cope with this... It would be like... If I joined up to a site about HIV and said that I'd just had my first test and it came back negative but that I was terrified of having HIV because I've read about people my age getting HIV and I couldn't be sure I didn't have HIV until they had run the whole series of three tests because there is a margin of error... And if I found out I had HIV... then I'd likely kill myself.

It can come across as disrespectful to others who really do KNOW they have HIV. If I went there and was mostly supportive to others and posted a little about being scared that I had it people would probably be supportive to me... But people who are probably going to die sometime soonish aren't likely to want to spend much time dealing with me if I'm afraid of contracting HIV for the reasons I outlined above. They aren't likely to want to spend much time dealing with me (and they are going to feel upset indeed) if I'm talking of killing myself when they are fighting for their lives.

Therapy Deneb.