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Lymphovascular invasion

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 30, 2023 | Replies (48)
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@windyshores

All 4 of my opinions didn't have much to say about the LVI. They went by my low Oncotype. I did ask if it was focal or extensive (focal) and if it was in lymph or blood vessels or both (lymph).

Is the second surgery you mentioned, just for lymph nodes? Didn't they take a sentinel node in the first surgery?

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resort | @resort | Jan 26, 2023

They took Sentinel node during surgery. However, they were not able to detect micromestatasis on sentinel node during the surgery until many days later the final pathology report came out. Because of the LVI status, I went back to have axillary lymph node detection 3 weeks later. I asked my surgeon about my LVI (focal or extensive). She said if the report didn’t say “focal”, normally it means “extensive”. Did your report say “focal”? I’m urging oncologist to give me chemo because of LVI. I’ll see her next week. Do you have any positive nodes?

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