Full steam ahead to surgery on Thursday
I feel much more safe and settled having seen the surgeon. I am having a mastectomy and snr on Thursday at The Mount hospital, going for bone scan today after CT scan yesterday. Peter says I have a S...
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To be honest the surgeon didn't say specifically that I wouldn't, but seemed genuinely surprised by my assumption that I probably would need one or the other. I got a strong impression that he has seen a lot of other patients with a similar picture (ie Stage 2 IDC/DCIS of 3cm, and he knows that only a small percentage have spread into the armpit nodes or beyond. And this has now been endorsed by my Bonescan and CT scan which appear to be negative.
I do realise this is all preliminary to the pathology result, and maybe depend also on what type of cancer it is. But as my daughter said, after the initial bad news, every hopeful result feels like we just won the lottery