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Blossom1961
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4 years ago

I'm confused

Four years ago today I had the dreaded biopsy which confirmed my BC. Today I had to have a biopsy to check something seen on my US I had on Tuesday. They found something growing in my lymph nodes. Huh? What lymph nodes? They were removed. Full anxilliary clearance. Today the radiologist and the doctor both assured me I had numerous lymph nodes in my chest region. They both queried me as to the full removal and suggested maybe I only had a couple removed. The radiologist on Tuesday queried me twice as did the one from today and the doctor queried me three times. I have to wait a week to see if the lymph nodes 'which I don't have' are cancerous. My reports all show I had the full clearance three and a half years ago.

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  • Afraser's avatar
    Afraser
    Member
    4 years ago
    I may be wrong, but I thought an axillary clearance referred to lymph nodes in the armpit only. People have hundreds of lymph nodes in the body. I had eight or nine clearly swollen nodes and a further eight nodes were removed (17 in all). But I am not sure that was all of them, in the arm/breast area, just the ones that looked suspicious and the ones next to them. Hereā€™s hoping there is no problem, all except one of my very suspicious looking nodes turned out to
    be benign. Best wishes. 
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    iserbrown
    Member
    4 years ago
    Oh goodness @Blossom1961
    Something isn't ringing right but hopefully this biopsy is benign
    Fingers crossed for you
    Take care