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@auntieoakley

This is heartbreaking news! I know you have a lot of questions, local recurrence is more common than distant recurrence, for this we can be truly grateful. One of the doctors I saw in my first year, told me that your cancer stages itself and decides how to act when it is the size of a pencil point. Now they have the tests like oncotype to help figure out what that is. Making it less like a roll of the dice. There is an increased risk of distance recurrence with the node involvement. You said two small nodes, does this mean two nodes were positive for cancer?

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Thanks for your answer! By 2 smaller nodes I meant 2 smaller tumors near the main one. My lymph nodes were all clear first time around and I am waiting to hear about this time around. I wish I could at least have avoided the axillary dissection but I guess they didn't locate sentinel nodes and had to remove all.
Again, thanks!