@deh thanks for sharing. I think that is the most shocking part of this (for me at least) - I don't have invasive cancer yet am losing some/all of my breast. Pre-emptive strike and all that. I had my wide area excision on Friday, losing 20-25% of tissue on my right breast (hard to say as I'm swollen etc) and now anxiously/impatiently awaiting Monday 15th April for the histology results and judgment on the margins. I think I am mentally prepared for 'no clear margins' (my surgeon tells me they had to keep cutting more and more tissue as they kept finding more and more cells during surgery) but will obviously be relieved if the margins are clear and we can now proceed to reconstruction. I must say my surgeon has done an amazingly neat job. I am completely in awe of her and the surgical team. To complicate matters she is concerned I have Paget's disease (cancer of the nipple) so yet another unknown to possibly deal with...I suppose it is 'helpful' that all of these challenges are coming at the same time as I hate drip-feeding of bad news!
