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Lani · 08-08-2007, 06:42 PM

was methylene blue dye used to locate your surgery or your lymph nodes?

It causes false negative results in ER testing (I posted this about 8 weeks ago)--go to the search function on this site and put in "dye"

I attended a meeting on the biologic basis of breast cancer in July and a famous pathologist got up and discussed the need to improve ER testing with some practical suggestions.

Many cancer centers do second pathologic opinions--some of your slides get sent from the pathology department of the hospital where your surgery was done and the pathologists at the institution you send them to evaluate them. MD Anderson does it, Stanford does it, I would guess that MSK and Dana-Farber do it. I helped arrange for a second pathologic opinion of a friend of a friend from Denmark with triple negative bc done at MD Anderson. I remember scouring their website to find the info on how it was to be requested and the Danish hospital sent the slides and it was quite easy all around.

If I remember the name of the pathologist who gave the talk I will post it.
Hope this helps!

08-08-2007, 06:42 PM	#42
Lani Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,780	Bronny was methylene blue dye used to locate your surgery or your lymph nodes? It causes false negative results in ER testing (I posted this about 8 weeks ago)--go to the search function on this site and put in "dye" I attended a meeting on the biologic basis of breast cancer in July and a famous pathologist got up and discussed the need to improve ER testing with some practical suggestions. Many cancer centers do second pathologic opinions--some of your slides get sent from the pathology department of the hospital where your surgery was done and the pathologists at the institution you send them to evaluate them. MD Anderson does it, Stanford does it, I would guess that MSK and Dana-Farber do it. I helped arrange for a second pathologic opinion of a friend of a friend from Denmark with triple negative bc done at MD Anderson. I remember scouring their website to find the info on how it was to be requested and the Danish hospital sent the slides and it was quite easy all around. If I remember the name of the pathologist who gave the talk I will post it. Hope this helps!