Hi @MaryAnnie. I had a mastectomy in August 2017. The surgeon did not give me a copy of my path report until I insisted on having a copy 3 months later. When I got home and read the report I saw that my margin was involved (on the chest wall side). I was extremely upset that I wasn’t told and that I had to discover this myself. I emailed him late that night and he brushed it off. Said it wasn’t a problem. After a month of sleepless nights I went to see another surgeon to get a second opinion about the involved margin. She also wasn’t worried. I haven’t had any further treatment as I had already had radiotherapy for my first bout of breast cancer 3years earlier so couldn’t have it again. My cancer doesn’t respond to chemotherapy so couldn’t have that either. And to complicate matters, I had an immediate breast reconstruction at the time of the mastectomy so can’t feel my chest wall to see if anything is growing there. There’s not much I can do. Just have to wait and hope and trust that the surgeons are right.
Is your involved margin on the chest wall side or the skin side?