Hits hard - surgery scars
News like this is especially tough when you thought you were doing all the right things and always a blow.
But you should keep in mind that the surgeons and med oncs always watch those surgery scars for recurrance. I don't know how many women I know that had the thing come back in a surgery scar area. Granted only one was on on Herceptin, but they all had the chemo/rads if not a mast.
You have had active disease and some cells can break off and settle anywhere. Better the breast than another vital organ, I say.
Seems to me that a PET scan would not catch the calcifications or a tumor smaller than about 1/2 centimeter. Why my docs have me get the regular mammos. New mammo scanners are quite sensitive. A breast MRI would have seen it. But those are not ordered on a general basis in this country.
Find that Game Face and put on the war paint. Know you have a great team waiting for you and they will put this sneaky devil in it proper place.
Once you are settled from the shock and have a plan in place, let is know.
And thanks for raising the alarm that we can never really let down our guard.
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