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Why are axillary nodes removed if sentinel node found positive?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Oct 4, 2022 | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
Socks...are you from Sweden?
One thing that I noticed is that my lump got bigger after the biopsy. Before, I couldn't feel the bump nor the gynecologist.
What do you think? Did you hear about this?
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There will frequently be a build up fluid and inflammation after a lumpectomy. This will make that area, bigger and more tender for a while, but inflammation is a bodies normal response to injury. This is one of the bodies ways to aid in healing.
How many days since your lumpectomy?
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I don't have any experience with that. But the tumor I had was small, 5-6mm, and not detectable by physical exam. The post-surgery biopsy reported it as 9mm at the widest area but that included clear margins of at least 1mm so don't think it 'grew' in the ten days between pre-surgery biopsy and surgery. I had a friend who had a routine biopsy (negative for cancer) trigger an infection that caused a lot of swelling though so that can possibly happen.