Moving forward and feeling better

Hi

I have a similar story.

I also got my results back on Friday after my lumpectomy and level 2 axillary clearance on 28/4.  Prior to surgery and since Feb, I was told I had one small 10 mm invasive ductal carcinoma and one 5 mm high grade DCIS in the same quadrant.  After surgery they now tell me they found 2 invasive ductal tumours ( 16 mm and 6 mm), The DCIS is also now 40 mm. I am also wondering if that is a typo. How does it grow from 5 mm to 40 !!.  Unfortunately the margins are not clear and there seems to be more suspicious areas left behind so now have to have a left mastectomy. 

I was told prior to surgery after the MRI and needle biopsy the cancer was in 1 lymph node but after surgery they say they have found cancer in 3 nodes and micro-cancers in another 2 more. So I now need to have Chemo. 

I am told the cancers is stage 3, very aggressive and ER neg. Still waiting for HER2 results

I had had every scan know to man, 6 core biopsy, full body bone scan, CT x 2,  MRI x2 , even a liver MRI as they found 2 suspicious lesions in my liver and yet all along one invasive cancer was hiding all this time. The surgeon said it was an unexpected finding. < really>,  They don't want to do a biopsy on the liver due to the risk of bleeding and a MRI was inconclusive so don't know what that means. Doc couldn't really give me any more info about prognosis etc and he wants to wait until after the next surgery to say anymore. They were taking about a red cell scan re liver lesions.

Completely overwhelmed atm and my head is spinning. 

Narelle

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