A Consultant's take on Fighting Breast Cancer
Unfortunately, the pathology on the removal did not come back with clear margins. They had clear margins on the bottom, but the top was “still involved.” So.. they are going to need to take some more skin. We scheduled the surgery on 6/3 to hopefully take the remaining “involved” skin. The kicker is that they are worried it’s too much Read More …
Surgery to remove the skin around the cancer lump was deemed a success by my Surgical Oncologist. I’m feeling pretty good – a little tummy rumblings but I was given a nausea patch. It was an early morning – 6am start. I had to shower with Hibiclens and then head to the hospital. Things moved very quickly when I got Read More …
Good news on the mole biopsy – it was moderately atypical (not a cancer) but they removed it all so no need for follow ups. Now I just need someone to take out the stitches.
It was a good day! I’ve been walking and getting lots of steps, got my coffee and headed to the medical oncologist. Blood test was good and he said we’re going to move into an observation phase instead of another drug. He is optimistic that after they remove the last bit remaining from the biopsy we’ll be in good shape Read More …
Sorry for the delay in getting these up and then the back to back posts. I wanted to wait until I had results to post. I had to go through the agony of 2 weeks of worry, I didn’t want to put others through it. So I had my PET scan on the morning of 5/1… Got up bright and Read More …