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I can certainly understand her first reaction too... I had a 9mm tumor removed with clean margins. A month later when I had a breast MRI (should have done this FIRST!) they found two additional (yes 2) more tumors. One was 1.4cm and the other was 4mm just barely off the clean margin of where the 1st tumor was removed. Of course this finding upped my chemo to DD and proved that technology is there for a reason. I ended up with a re-excision.
In Colleens case; The lab person behind the microscope is as important as the team working on her...
I have always understood that 4mm is about as small as any technological device can pick-up. Anything smaller is left to radiation and chemo. Otherwise, the cancer that remains in the breast unaffected by rads/chemo could be the so-called recurrences... makes me wonder how many recurrences are actualy original tumors that were never caught !
I am really glad time provided more insight for Colleen...
Maria
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