Reactive lymphnode

Sorry you have not had any replies, this should bump you back to the top where hopefully you will get some replies.  Love from Ann

I had reactive lymph nodes on more than one occasion prior to surgery, which made the oncology team very suspicious, and in the end it had nothing to do with my breast cancer. To this day no one can say for sure what caused those lymph nodes to react that way, but they think it had to do with all the blood tests and chemo that the arm on that side had to endure (doesn't explain why two of them were reactive on my first ultrasound scan to that area prior to all the fun starting.) I also had two lymph nodes in another area that were so convincing in their appearance that they were taken, with absolute certainty, for breast cancer mets -- until they were plucked out and found to be just lymph nodes. I also had a bit of fibrosis and one completely benign tumour, both of which showed up on scans giving a good immitation of breats cancer mets, again only to be revealed by pathology later on to be nothing to do with breast cancer.

Scans are very useful, but not definitive. I hope your pathology report comes back negative.

Thanks so much. I feel better now knowing there are lots of other reasons, explained or otherwise. Hope you're doing ok.