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Meow13
Meow13 Member Posts: 4,859
edited August 2014 in Stage I Breast Cancer

My surgeon (who is now retired) has 0/2 nodes on my report. I know I had the dye was for indicating the sentinal node, did they actually remove 2 nodes?

Under my arm is still tight almost 3 years out. Did they test enough nodes?

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  • SpecialK
    SpecialK Member Posts: 16,486
    edited August 2014

    Your surgeon will remove as many nodes as light up with dye/tracer, or sometimes there is more than one node encased in the fat pad that is removed in the sentinel biopsy. I had bi-lateral SNB, one node on one side and two on the other. Sometimes several light up, you will see women with more than two removed in a SNB.

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  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 6,197
    edited August 2014

    Hi Meow, if the Path says 0/2 then 2 were tested and nothing was found,, there wasn't any indication that they should take more.

    Specialk is right, there are often more than 1 node that light up, when we have the tracer and scan done.

    I think you'll find that many women have discomfort, long after the surgery that removes any lymph nodes. I know I am still very numb in my Mx armpit.

    I still massage my chest and underarm and find if I don't so some stretching exercises fairly regularly, I can feel tight again too.

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