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Recently diagnosed
I have recently had a mastectomy and reconstruction after finding a lump (turned out there were 4 other small tumors in addition to the one I felt) and although initial biopsy and frozen sample of ly...
Hi Annie,
My surgeon and oncologist agreed that the auxiliary clearance would be of no greater benefit than the Chemo/Radiation treatment. The only reason for doing the clearance would be to confirm how many nodes are involved. As we are choosing to treat more aggressively with 6 months chemo and radiation anyway, they felt there was no benefit to do the clearance - other than risk of lymphodema etc. I have simply gone with their advice although may have felt better knowing the nodes were actually removed!! I do trust them though.
Cheers, Meg