Time span from diagnosis to treatment
Hi- need advice or reassurance please -Overdue BreastScreen Dec 22. -Received call from BreastScreen Jan to come in for further tests/ lump found. went to hospital and had two scans, 3D mammogram,...
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After advocating for myself several times with phone calls to management, pleas and formal written complaint my first appointment with breast surgeon was today.
Briefly:-
he said my tumour was small (2.5cm) so early case sonhe felt a lumpectomy to remove 8 cm of my breast ‘should be enough’ followed by chemo. I was quite insistent on full mastectomy one both boobies with SMALL inserts (great excuse to get rid of my 16DDs😬
however, because I am on thinners and waiting for hole in heart to be repaired doctor feels it best to only remove lump at this stage then decide how I feel after chemo.finished— As to whether I want mastectomy and reconstruction, as he felt full mastectomy was too extreme for a ‘small lump’ despite the fact I gave lobular ca which often returns and already had a large benign lump removed from both breasts 20 years ago.
Surgeon elaborated with ‘ I can move things around when I take out lump, and move some fatty flesh from back or flabb stomach to balance the breast out” my warped sense of humour was ...visions of surgeons playing with breast flesh like Patrick swayze playing on the pottery wheel in Ghost ! Hahaha
seriously tho- wondering if I should get second opinion
he said my tumour was small (2.5cm) so early case sonhe felt a lumpectomy to remove 8 cm of my breast ‘should be enough’ followed by chemo. I was quite insistent on full mastectomy one both boobies with SMALL inserts (great excuse to get rid of my 16DDs😬
however, because I am on thinners and waiting for hole in heart to be repaired doctor feels it best to only remove lump at this stage then decide how I feel after chemo.finished— As to whether I want mastectomy and reconstruction, as he felt full mastectomy was too extreme for a ‘small lump’ despite the fact I gave lobular ca which often returns and already had a large benign lump removed from both breasts 20 years ago.
Surgeon elaborated with ‘ I can move things around when I take out lump, and move some fatty flesh from back or flabb stomach to balance the breast out” my warped sense of humour was ...visions of surgeons playing with breast flesh like Patrick swayze playing on the pottery wheel in Ghost ! Hahaha
seriously tho- wondering if I should get second opinion