Bilateral Mastectomy

Thank you so much Colleen!  When I first felt the lump the next day I was sent to see my specialist who straight away said it would have been an fibroadenoma or PT.  Mammogram, ultrasound and core biopsy which described it as borderline Phyllodes.  Doctor suggested lumpectomy was the normal procedure.  We we told only after the pathology results that it was malignant 5cmX4cmX2 close to the skin/nipple and during which cells were still found around the border.  So this is when the doctor quoted that wider incision had the same recurrence rate as mastectomy and then if it came back, she would do the mastectomy......So we went ahead trusting the doctor's advice.  (She had only one other benign PT patient previously - with reoccurence).  After that, we needed to know that it had not already spread elsewhere, so we asked for C/T scans, mri and gave the doctor research papers about radiation after lumpectomy......She was irritated and felt she had done everything and that normally a patient would be happy and that she would do a breast reduction for my healthy breast later onl.   Mum was still afraid of the high rate of reoccurance and so off we went to see the Radiology Professor in Liverpool Hospital (who, when asked, if it was his daughter) said, he would opt for a mastecomy.    It just goes to show that some doctors are very casual about P/T.  Good luck and hope you are statistically the 70% that it does not return to......