Forum Discussion
CaBrCh010310
13 years agoMember
My Experience
HI all my name is Kirsti, I am 44 years of age, married with two sons aged 12 and 9 and a daugter aged 2. I discovered on Tuesday that I have a phyllodes tumor.
I have had a lump in my right ...
Julia_M
13 years agoMember
Thanks Katie, it was through you that mum and I joined the 2 Facebook P/T Support groups and learned of the options available to others and what was an overreaction or not......The group was better informed than my surgeon and her colleagues. I think that was the scariest thing, that there is NO expert....and what one doctor has experience in their patients,, may be completely differnet to mine. In her own way, my surgeon acknowledged that she had underestimated the potential danger of reoccurance and even did Sentinal Node Biopsy because she realised that mine was against all the statistics......she is a great and passionate surgeon and I am comfortable with her now as she is also preparing the reconstruction. Thanks again, Katie, God Bless!!!