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Locator clips placed during lumpectomy for radiation therapy
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 23 6:13pm | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
@healinhand
I was told the clips were titanium and was shown them on imaging by the radiation oncologist. The surgeons placed them there so any future surgeon, radiation oncologist, or radiologist reading mammograms would know where the original tumor was. To my knowledge, they are left there as a guidance.
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They placed my marker in, when I had the biopsy done, but the surgeon removed it with the wire and tumor. I thought it was going to be left in but it was removed.
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That’s correct, my question to the surgeon, was how many, and where?