Newly diagnosed
@Vix1963 message moved from the activity section by BCNA moderator. Hi peeps Last 7 days been a whirlwind- HISTORY-24 years ago I had two lumpectomies ,one from each breast - both benign. Have h...
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After an MRI on Feb 22, I saw my surgeon at Austin hosp the following day…
small lump on L breast that had initially been detected at mammogram dec 22 was now a lot bigger AND my entire L breast has scattered pellets of cancer with tentacles - so initial plan of lumpectomy/hormone/chemo/radiotherapy has now changed to mastectomy. I’ve asked for both to be removed so they are ‘even’
surgeon then referred me for bone scan/blood pool study/Ct scan/lymph node biopsies . They couldn’t find my lymph nodes to take biopsy… is that good?
When I queried my Breast care nurse at Austin she reassured me that maybe this means lymph node as are swollen so no invasive growth but she also noted my surgeon still hadn’t referred me to oncology ( which will be closer to home at frankston hospital)
I see surgeon again next week to get results of the aforementioned scans etc.
should I be concerned that it’s getting near two months since diagnosis and cancer already rapidly spreading and still treatment hasn’t started?
small lump on L breast that had initially been detected at mammogram dec 22 was now a lot bigger AND my entire L breast has scattered pellets of cancer with tentacles - so initial plan of lumpectomy/hormone/chemo/radiotherapy has now changed to mastectomy. I’ve asked for both to be removed so they are ‘even’
surgeon then referred me for bone scan/blood pool study/Ct scan/lymph node biopsies . They couldn’t find my lymph nodes to take biopsy… is that good?
When I queried my Breast care nurse at Austin she reassured me that maybe this means lymph node as are swollen so no invasive growth but she also noted my surgeon still hadn’t referred me to oncology ( which will be closer to home at frankston hospital)
I see surgeon again next week to get results of the aforementioned scans etc.
should I be concerned that it’s getting near two months since diagnosis and cancer already rapidly spreading and still treatment hasn’t started?