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Hi Debbie , I made the choice of mastectomy as the mammogram showed a spindle cell cancer but there were some other possible calcifications closer to my nipple. I didn't want to be forever wondering if they were going to be cancerous so my husband and looked at each other and I made the decision to have a mastectomy. My dr said she always takes three lymph nodes based on a sentinel node mapping test just before my op. This was a needle injected in my breast and a blue dye injected . This shows which lymph nodes are more likely to have any cancer cells travel down them. Much better than taking all. Ended up with five lymph nodes taken and all were clear as with the breast tissue. But my cancer is metaplastic and quite rare so referred to oncologist who said owing the nature of this nasty aggressive cancer she wants me to have 6 sessions of chemo three weeks apart. Start Tuesday. Just had a port placed in my chest as veins are not great. It is all a blur being sent for PET scans, heart scans bone scans but I trust my medical team and have had wonderful support. Hubby has given up work and comes everywhere. Sometimes waiting for four to five hours at a time while I have tests. I'm very blessed. Good luck