Mass in breast: While biopsy results are not always 100% (there can be sampling issues), if your radiologist or surgeon feels that they were sampling the right area, and did a good job of sampling, there should be little concern of a false negative result. Most pathology groups section the sample pretty well and look carefully at all the cores obtained from the biopsy procedure. Accuracy is pretty high as well.
Answered 11/6/2014
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The 6 month: follow up may simply be standard protocol. If the biopsy results, although benign, did not explain the MRI finding (discordance), the proper recommendation would be a repeat MRI biopsy or surgical excision, not 6 month follow up. False negatives are a concern in every type of biopsy, but sampling error would be highly unlikely when the area of abnormality was as large as 6cm.
Answered 11/16/2014
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