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lymph node biopsy differences?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 8 10:49am | Replies (13)
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@lilacs777

Ah, ok, your doctor's approach makes sense then. In my case, the mammo and MRI both clearly showed problems on the L side but the right side was clean (both breast and axilla). Since your scan shows potential lesions on both breasts, your doctor wants to make sure he/she can check nodes on both sides, which is the right thing to do.

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meeshodge | @meeshodge | Aug 8 10:49am

He said I should get the Right lymph node biopsy before any surgery I choose. If the low chance that the lymph node is positive, we would have to discuss doing chemotherapy first. The left lymph nodes look ok, so no biopsy needed there. But a left surgical lymph node biopsy would be done because in the low chance there is small cancer on the left (based on whatever the MRI finding on the left could be), then we cannot go back and do a surgical lymph node biopsy.

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