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Sentinel node and mastectomy
I was diagnosed with grade 3 idc 3 weeks ago. I had a mastectomy yesterday and WAS to also have a sentinel node biopsy. But when i saw surgeon this morning, after op yesterday, he told me he had to ta...
I had one very enlarged node biopsied before surgery, and it was malignant. As I had several more just as large, I wasn't surprised that they were taken out too, and a few more just to be on the safe side. As it turned out, only the biopsied node was malignant, cancer cells can irritate tissue around them and the rest of the enlarged nodes were just mightily peeved. Seemed then, and now, a perfectly sensible measure to remove them. Good luck.