Confused with my diagnose.
I was Diagnosed with metastatic cancer on 17th September. Iv'e has scans ex rays etc and having a mastectomy on 13 November. It seems that it is only in my nodes. Does this mean it not Metastatic canc...
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Hi @Chrissieanne,
My initial diagnosis (from the first biopsies) was "highly probable metastatic breast cancer" once all the staging scans were done it was the same as you. All clear everywhere else. It is difficult to understand sometimes. After surgery there were 5 out of the 24 they removed positive. The main culprit had a 25mm tumour which had broken through the node and was in the surrounding tissue as well which generally would have put me to stage 3. However as the actual primary breast lesion was only 19mm the outcome was stage 2 grade 2 locally advanced.
Does your head in trying to understand this mumbo jumbo. The main thing is that it is nowhere else which is awesome!
My initial diagnosis (from the first biopsies) was "highly probable metastatic breast cancer" once all the staging scans were done it was the same as you. All clear everywhere else. It is difficult to understand sometimes. After surgery there were 5 out of the 24 they removed positive. The main culprit had a 25mm tumour which had broken through the node and was in the surrounding tissue as well which generally would have put me to stage 3. However as the actual primary breast lesion was only 19mm the outcome was stage 2 grade 2 locally advanced.
Does your head in trying to understand this mumbo jumbo. The main thing is that it is nowhere else which is awesome!