Margins
Has anyone had Mastectomy but found out they had close or unclear margins? What did you do?
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Hi,
I am 11 days post bilateral mastectomy with a direct to implant reconstruction. On around day 8 my BCN called me to say all my pathology was clear including my removed nodes. All good I'm thinking. But....when I see my surgeon on day 10 he tells me the nurse didn't read the report properly and there is an 8mm area of DCIS right under my nipple (I had nipple sparing reconstruction). With a clear margin of only 0.4mm from the "inked" area. AAAAhhhhhhhh! He basically told me he's not sure what the right option is here and he will think about it - I see him again in 3 weeks. He did say you could take off the nipple, but it could come back positive or negative. If it came back negative it would all be for nothing. You could have radiation, but this would probably destroy my implant. You can take a watch and see approach. I'm so annoyed, after all the scans and MRI's I've had this never showed up. The whole reason for having the nipple sparing surgery was because my original DCIS was 4cm away from nipple - so they said I was a good candidate. I've had 3 surgeries in 8 weeks and just thought I could put all this behind me. Apologies for the rant!
I am 11 days post bilateral mastectomy with a direct to implant reconstruction. On around day 8 my BCN called me to say all my pathology was clear including my removed nodes. All good I'm thinking. But....when I see my surgeon on day 10 he tells me the nurse didn't read the report properly and there is an 8mm area of DCIS right under my nipple (I had nipple sparing reconstruction). With a clear margin of only 0.4mm from the "inked" area. AAAAhhhhhhhh! He basically told me he's not sure what the right option is here and he will think about it - I see him again in 3 weeks. He did say you could take off the nipple, but it could come back positive or negative. If it came back negative it would all be for nothing. You could have radiation, but this would probably destroy my implant. You can take a watch and see approach. I'm so annoyed, after all the scans and MRI's I've had this never showed up. The whole reason for having the nipple sparing surgery was because my original DCIS was 4cm away from nipple - so they said I was a good candidate. I've had 3 surgeries in 8 weeks and just thought I could put all this behind me. Apologies for the rant!