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Lymph nodes
Hi there, I’m a newbie here, great to meet you all. Can anyone shed some light, had a mastectomy 12 days ago and 4 SN lymph nodes taken out. Results came back 3 clear 1 has a 3mm deposit...should ...
I haven’t thought about writing my will and I had 8 nodes positive, 3 of them had metastatic growths. I figure that’s what chemo is for. My aunt had 8 positive the same as mine 13 years ago and is perfectly well with no recurrence. Some people have a recurrence with no positive nodes so I think it’s the luck of the draw.
I was panicked to start with, my tumours (2) were small and I feel ripped off that it was already in my nodes when others have huge tumours that didn’t progress at all to their nodes. But, that’s life. I have had one chemo treatment, 15 to go, radiation and then tamoxifen and then fingers crossed.
If we spend our time worrying about dying we aren’t really living 😊