question about pathology results

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tmccl
tmccl Member Posts: 12
edited June 2014 in IBC (Inflammatory Breast Cancer)

I had a mastectomy on Friday, Jan. 15, 2009. I got pathology report back yesterday. It said that I had positive margins. Is this common in IBC or should the surgeon have taken more skin. She said that she left some extra skin since I would be getting radiation and that would drqw up the skin.

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  • tmccl
    tmccl Member Posts: 12
    edited February 2010

    No, she thinks that since I will be having radiation that I need the extra skin. I don't know if I agree with that though. I wonder how long it would be safe to wait to have surgery to obtain clear margins?

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  • germangal
    germangal Member Posts: 97
    edited February 2010

    I'm with Bonnie on this one ... please get that second opinion! My surgeon took as much skin as she thought she needed to get those clean margins, saying she would transplant skin if needed to address any reconstruction, should I choose to go that route (which I didn't). Radiation did definitely tighten the skin initially and caused my surgical site to "tear open" a little bit (a couple of centimeters which did heal). As I continue exercises, etc, it doesn't feel as tight as it once did.

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  • germangal
    germangal Member Posts: 97
    edited February 2010

    BTW, local breast surgeon wouldn't operate on me because she had never seen IBC before, she referred me to a breast surgeon at a teaching hospital, where they had treated IBC patients.

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