worried sick !!!

johnnyd
johnnyd Member Posts: 10
edited June 2014 in ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)

After having breat cancer surgery and the removal of three lympth nodes, the results are as follows: Tumor was under 1cm but all three lympth nodes had microscopic cancer cells. She will be going into surgery again for "Completion", the removal of more nodes. The Pathology report indicated "Metastatic lobular carcinoma in all three nodes. She has been told that she will require both Chemo and Radiation

Can someone provide a more detailed explaination of what the second surgery means and does this mean it has spread throughout her body. Her lung, bone and liver scan came back clean.

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johnny

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  • nash
    nash Member Posts: 2,600
    edited November 2009

    The second surgery will be an axillary dissection to remove more nodes--you'll have to ask the surgeon how many s/he will be removing. If her scans are clean, then that means that the docs do not see any evidence of disease in the organs. There could be cells out in the body that are too small to see, and that's what the chemo is for. The term "metastatic" in the path report refers to positive nodes, not metastatic disease in the sense of Stage IV disease where the cancer has spread to the organs.

    It's unusual for ILC to be triple negative, BTW. 

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