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Piece of port remains in me...
I had my port removed 1 yr ago...
I had a chest XRay today and Behold ! the end cap of a port is still in my chest!
I have not had any pain - radiologist said that sometimes the tissue grows into/around the port and its near impossible to dig it all out.
It would have been nice for the surgeon to tell me !
Anyone had any problems from a piece o'port remaining in the the chest ?
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Dx'd 8/04 at 41
Stage 1 for some onc's; Stage II for others (if you add up the sizes of all tumors).
Infiltrating DCIS
HER2+, ER+10% & PR-
.9cm tumor not visible on mammo, but palpable; visible on ultrasound
Lumpectomy/ clear margins, no nodes
Had Breast MRI after lumpectomy that revealed two more tumors in same quadrant(.4cm and 1.6cm) that were not visible on either mammo or ultrasound.
Re-excision
DD AC+T; Herceptin one year
Rads
NED/Taking Tamoxifen reluctantly
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