Lymph node results: initial diagnosis vs. found at surgery?

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IDCSister
IDCSister Member Posts: 7
edited February 2016 in HER2+ (Positive) Breast Cancer

Hi, I posted this in the regular IDC forum, but posting it here might be more relevant. My sister is in her 2nd round of chemo and doing poorly - it's so hard to watch. For those of you who did neoadjuvant chemo prior to surgery (my sister is 33 years old, triple positive and will have a mastectomy this summer after 6 rounds chemo), I had a question... I know most people get their diagnosis including the # of lymph nodes affected via scans. But then, come surgery time, that is when the true number of lymph nodes is actually confirmed.

I'm wondering what everyone's experience was with this... was your initial diagnosis of affected lymph nodes the same as what was found at surgery? Or different, and if so, what was the difference? (For instance I know of someone who had 0 lymph nodes seen on scans, but then at surgery they discovered 2).

Thanks, just curious.

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  • BarredOwl
    BarredOwl Member Posts: 2,433
    edited February 2016

    Hi IDC sister:

    Hoping by bumping this thread you'll get some triple positive ladies who received neoadjuvant therapy to share their experience regarding their lymph nodes status prior to neoadjuvant treatment, as compared with their lymph node status determined post-neoadjuvant therapy and surgery.

    BarredOwl

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  • Skittlegirl
    Skittlegirl Member Posts: 428
    edited February 2016

    I had one positive lymph node prior to chemo. During surgery, my BS found the clip from the biopsied lymph node, confirmed it was negative for cancer and didn't need to remove additional nodes.

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