Anyone's type changed after surgery?

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Hi,

After my biopsy I was told I had mucinous breast cancer which is quite rare and was charaterised by the cells producing mucous when viewed under the microscope, I thought this would have made it difficult to get the diagnosis wrong but following my mastectomy they have said that I have dutal carinoma of no special type (or whatever the phrase is). So I have gone from having one of the rarest to having the most common. When I spoke to my Breast Care Nurse about it she just said that they don’t always get it right with a biopsy as such a small sample of tissue is taken and that when looking at the whole picture after surgery they decided I have this NST instead. The oncologist said it’s kind of irrelevant at the end of the day as it would be treated the same but still it’s left me a tad confused. Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

San
xxx

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hi, yes after biopsy i was told i had the same as you at first, i googled it and then quite concerned rang the bcn, she said there end diagnosis is ductal, so same as you there, rare one then changed to common one, and i havent even had surgery yet!!!
Its a step up though as my initial diagnosis 6 months prior was a fibroadenoma! and they wonder why we worry??
take care
anna

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After the biopsy I was told I had a 1cm extremely slow growing and very probably hormonal tumour. A month later after the op they told me it was an extremely aggressive 2.4cm triple neg with a lot of vascular invasion. When I queried it they just said ‘mistakes do happen!’
Josie x