obviously i do not know your wife's medical history and breast cancer risks nor can i examine her and view those mammogram results but i can probably back-up the surgeon's decision. mammograms are not perfect. the only way to get a 100% assurance that this calcification is truly benign is by a pathological specimen. examining it carefully under a microscope by a train pathologist. even a biopsy (a small piece of this calcification) can be wrong so a excisional biopsy is often the best way to go. this way the entire calcified area is removed and examined. if this tissue is benign that you will know conclusively that this area is not cancer you and your wife can relax and will not have to worry that the mammogram missed something. in medicine we have a saying: gone is good. that calcification is now gone it was not cancer and this is good.
is it normal to have benign breast calcification surgically removed? . my wife had the biopsy done and was told that the calcification were benign we had a consultation with a surgeon and they said that even though the test results came back as benign she should still go ahead and have the calcification surgically removed since there is still a chance that tests were wrong even if its almost a non existential chance that the test were wrong. is it normal to have benign breast calcification surgically removed?