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I did neoadjuvant chemo too...Nordko I actually started treatment within a week which is way sooner than most women who are waiting for surgery.
I believe most of the larger centers are starting chemo first (before any surgery) for her2 and triple neg tumors over a certain size. At MDA they start at over 2cm. This is done to mainly gauge the effectiveness of chemo on the tumor. From my understanding if you were a lx candidate going into it then you would also be at the end but if your tumor is too large then it would still have to be a msx. The way it was explained to me was that the tumor dies like "swiss cheese" and therefore say you have a 5cm tumor and you only take 3cm of tissue and its tests negative for any invasive cancer there still may be some active cancer between 3-5 cm. Clear as mud?!

linn - hoping your bump is just fat necrosis which is very common with diep surgery