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Uncertainty
Hello everyone, I have just joined this incredible network as I only just learnt it existed. I was diagnosed end of Oct 2019 with invasive ductal carcinoma, estrogen and progesterone receptor posit...
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The uncertainty continues, I had my partial mastectomy and sentinel lymph node dissection, and the pathology report came back and there is a bed of 5cm cancer cells in my left breast and one out of three lymph nodes has 2.2mm cancer. So there you go. I chose partial in the end because I agreed with my surgeon that I was still collecting data, and with full mastectomy next Thursday, I am still collecting data but I feel a little more nervous now. I had the 6 months of chemo which reduced the first tumour but obviously it was not completely effective. Nerves nerves nerves.....@pv123
@cazi I hope your surgery went well.
The uncertainty continues, I had my partial mastectomy and sentinel lymph node dissection, and the pathology report came back and there is a bed of 5cm cancer cells in my left breast and one out of three lymph nodes has 2.2mm cancer. So there you go. I chose partial in the end because I agreed with my surgeon that I was still collecting data, and with full mastectomy next Thursday, I am still collecting data but I feel a little more nervous now. I had the 6 months of chemo which reduced the first tumour but obviously it was not completely effective. Nerves nerves nerves.....@pv123
@cazi I hope your surgery went well.