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Hi! @cashemire :

So sorry about your experience of local recurrence:( Since the pain went away, it must have been even more shocking to find out you had the regional recurrence near the scar of the surgery site! How did they realize the recurrence of BC eventually? Did they miss the early signs some how? I am so sorry to refresh this painful experience for you....

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us to help us striving forward!

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I noticed what I thought was a skin tag, but when it was biopsied (since the oncologist was suspicious) it was indeed a return of the BC...I've read in the lit that a local recurrence like this after radiation is very rare, about 2%, so I was just 'lucky' 🙂 Since had returned and was close to skin surface, I had to have a mastectomy, and since no sentinel node found, she removed 8 more nodes, all clear (after 8 removed at time of previous lumpectomy). It has been 1.5 yrs now, I have adjusted to the new me.