Two weeks after my mastectomy there was a lump that felt like a bone on my surgery site. It was cancer - recurrence or left behind from initial cancer was never resolved. I had 8 rounds of chemo to shrink it in order to get it out. Second surgery with bad margins. The doctors wanted to go straight to radiation to kill “sanitize “ any cells left behind. I had to fight for surgery. There was up to 1.2 million cancer cells removed in the third surgery with clear margins. Radiation was then used to “sanitize “ the space. The second option from the pathologist saved my life in deciding further surgery or straight to radiation. After radiation I spent 2 years on a CDK (verzenio) because any spread on the chest wall increases the risk of the cancer coming back.