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Brenda_D · 10-19-2007, 07:35 AM

My surgeon gave me a choice of lumpectomy and rads, or mastectomy and no rads. That was before the pet scan showed a positive IM node and it couldn't be removed.
So even if I'd have a mastectomy, I'd still had to have rads for the + node, even though all my excised axillary nodes were negative.

10-19-2007, 07:35 AM	#6
Brenda_D Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 368	My surgeon gave me a choice of lumpectomy and rads, or mastectomy and no rads. That was before the pet scan showed a positive IM node and it couldn't be removed. So even if I'd have a mastectomy, I'd still had to have rads for the + node, even though all my excised axillary nodes were negative. __________________ 12/12/06- IDC Stage III, 4x A/C, 35 rads, Herceptin 1 year