I was diagnosed with grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma that had spread into my lymph nodes on 10th August. On 9th September, I had around a quarter of my breast removed with some skin, they did a chest cavity shave to reconstruct the breast and full lymph node clearance. My pathology report came back that my margins weren't clear, so on the 7th October I had surgery to reopen the wounds and take more tissue and skin. I got my pathology report last week and have been told my tissue margins are now clear however the cancer has spread outside the original margins of the tumour in my skin and I need another operation to try and clear my skin margins. As you can imagine I've been completely disheartened and cross. I'm due to start chemo at the end of November. I'm oestrogen positive and her2 neg.
Has anyone else experienced difficulty with surgical margins?
