Advice please...

There seems to be variations on sentinal node and all node removal,depending on your surgeon and your pathology.Back in 2003,my surgeon offered the sentinal node option(which was still in trial)but advised on a full node clearance because of the size of my lump(2cm).She said I had a 60%chance that it had gone to the lymph nodes.She also said there is a 5%chance that cancer cells can skip the sentinal node and be found in other nodes.So based on that info,I said take them all.No cancer cells in any of my 17 nodes! It's now common procedure to just take the sentinal node-wish I could go back in time.Some surgeons will go back in and take a few more nodes if there is cancer in the first.Others will take the whole lot.Perhaps your node pathology doesn't warrant taking any more?I think you should ask your surgeon for more specific pathology ie. was the cancer eostrogen + or -ve,Hercepton +ve or -ve?for example.Did you get a copy of the pathology?I really think he should have discussed your options and not made a decision for you,regards doing a full node clearance or not.Hope I haven't done your head in Chris- big hug if I have.Tonya xx