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Surgeon missed the margins. 2nd surgery
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 24 9:07am | Replies (51)Comment receiving replies
1 in 4 lumpectomies have to be redone because the surgeons don’t get clear margins. They only take 1-2mm of tissue around the suspected tumor site…about the thickness of a piece of dry spaghetti. You can tell them to take an extra wide margin to better ensure all the malignant tissue is taken. They won’t do it without you telling them too. I’m thinking the lack of margin is all about repeat business.
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Oh this is disturbing. I had a double mastectomy (cancer was only ever found in left breast and subsequently, left arm pit '17 ( no one took me seriously when I said " what's this hard lump(self exam)in my arm pit '16...finally removed in '19. '21 Moved & changed BC Center/Drs. to my surprise, reccurrence in relative area of left arm pit '22 (I found it in self exam) and now left L5 vertabrae had lesion '23.
So I will not ramble, but it is evident that in a lumpectomy, ASK for as large margins as possible.
A double mastectomy among other treatment issues , subsequent surgeries, did not stop this mysterious and insidious BC. Hanging in there for 10 yrs now.....