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Outcome of post lumpectomy results: total axillary clearance of right arm, surgery next Monday.
My good news from my CT and bone scans is that they were all fine. My other good news is the lumpectomy and lymph node wounds are healing and I'm doing my physio exercises. However, when I came out of...
Sorry to hear the goal posts got moved on you but wasn't it good your surgeon took 5 nodes and not just the sentinel nodes.Otherwise they would not have found the cancerous ones. I had a lumpectomy and full node clearance in 2003. My drain was in for a week and it was a necessary nuisance. I don't have arm issues apart from abit of discomfort and puffiness under my arm. I massage my arm most days.I had to have a mastectomy in 2010 so that probably didn't help my under arm issues.Best wishes for a speedy recovery.xx