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What are the possible outcomes following triple assessment for a breast lump?
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What are the possible outcomes following triple assessment for a breast lump?

Mr barkerji talks about what the possible outcomes form having a triple assessment for a breast lump are.

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Mr. Bakaji, for breast lumps, you talk about triple assessment. What are the outcomes you can have from triple assessment? So the outcome for the majority of patients is good news. They will be told at the end of the triple assessment that the lump is benign. It could be a simple cyst, it could be just dense breast tissue, in which case nothing else needs to be done. If the lump is solid, then a biopsy will be taken, as I said, we'll send it for histology and we shall get the result. If unfortunately, on the rare occasion that it turns out to be breast cancer, then the patient will have further imaging to confirm, is it just localized to the breast or is it gone further? Depending on that, then decisions will be made. All patients with breast cancer in modern healthcare system will go through what we call a multidisciplinary meeting where you have the radiologist, the surgeons, the oncologist, the breast care nurse, and the histopathologist. and then an individual treatment plan is made that is tailored to that patient, to the patient's size of the cancer, the biology of the cancer, the size of the patient's breast, her age and her medical history. And also if she has any family history, additional investigation may need to be requested. Thank you.

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