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Surgeon missed the margins. 2nd surgery

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 15 8:14pm | Replies (82)

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My understanding according to what I was told is that during surgery the tissue that is in the tumor and the one that is healthy look like the same , so they try to cut good margins but sometimes there are some cancer cells around that are not in the images and that are impossible to see during surgery…

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The surgeons simply don’t take enough tissue. It is estimated that 1 in 4 lumpectomies have to be redone because malignant cells are left behind.