Breast cancer

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Hi you lovely lot. Just after your thoughts on a call I had with my breast nurse earlier today. I had lumpectomy and lymph node biopsy 9 days ago. Nurse called to double check it was ok to have a sample sent to america for the chemo test, bit annoyed its not already gone as now when I go for my follow up we still won't know if I need chemo or not. However she did mention I will not need more surgery. So my thought is (I know I should have asked her) does this mean do you think that they collected good margins and primarily my lymph nodes are clear.

jowoomot over 3 years ago

Hi , Inwould say yes, if there were no clear margins you would need another op, and if the sentinel nodes contained cancer there would have been more surgery or a conversation about options. The oncotype test is also not suitable if you have more than a very small amount of cancer in the lymph nodes, so another indication they are clear ?

I know they have to get permission for the oncotyoe test , but can’t get that until they have the initial results , so that is probably the reason it hasn’t been done before now.

Good luck with the rest of your treatment

Jo x

Waterspirit over 3 years ago in reply to jowoomot

Thanks for that informed reply Jo appreciated.

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