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This sounds like what had been lymphovascular invasion and it happened to occur within an area that became a fatty tumor.
If you had positive nodes then you had to have had lymphatic/vascular invasion (as the cancer had to get from the tumor to the node somehow). The only thing you have to ask your onc is - Is it a dead remnant? I would think it is after chemo (and rads I would suppose as fatty tumors are a common result of rads).
Is this the only area - did the fatty tumor form around the area and actually do you a great favor by confining this area?
I personally don't think you have anything to worry about here and that it is a fluke of a find and many of us lumpectomy gals have these dead things in us.
Keep us posted. I am curious as to what your onc will say. Call him tomorrow so you don't have to think about this any longer than that. Smile as much as you can because it does make you feel better.
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Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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