Sentinel lymph node letter worse than what said at clinic

Just to say good luck tomorrow. I think that the extra nodal spread happens in about 25-50% of nodal involvement.  I had one positive sentinel with early signs of it (whatever that means!), had level 3 clearance and not a dot was found. Only one sentinel was positive,  and didn't show on the ultrasound. 

I imagine that you'll have chemo,  and if you had a lumpectomy then radiotherapy,  and after hormone blockers,  so you've lots of treatments!

I'm only up the road from you geographically,  and was referred to them 5 years ago for a mammogram,  but that one came up clear.  I had my treatment 3 years later (April 19 - present at the Whittington. Xxx

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Thank you, yes I had seen that the proportion of women you mentioned get this result. I’m hoping that the one negative node might be a sign the rest negative. I had to go to Whittington as Homerton don’t have nuclear medicine dept so logistical joy 4 weeks ago (I had mastectomy because extensive tumour) of Whittington first then over to Homerton. The procedure is done and I got apologies from very nice consultant about the upset this additional bit of info caused. And a possibly not very convincing explanation but there is as you say, treatment coming and lots of time to understand the data, of which there will be more from today. They are tending to be upbeat about fact my cancer is oestrogen positive and now I am getting used to their communication style I’m getting better at asking direct questions like so how does this affect my prognosis etc. Seeing breast nurse Thursday and maybe get drain out. Waited 4.5 hours to get my meds for discharge so occupied myself writing toPALS and friends & family feedback survey!

 Thank you for such a helpful answer

Fran x