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| 04/13/2003 | ihad lumpectomy .they dont know if they got ca. or not?How many cases do you know of this happening. And what do you sugest I do next. Should they have used a radioactiive dye.What percentage of lumpectomy do not work.How long after a lumpectomy shoud you have a mamagram done. | ||
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| 04/13/2003 | The method of determining if the lumpectomy was "successful" or not is by pathology who determines the type of cancer and whether clear margins were achieved. If an operation as performed on the breast without knowing if there was cancer inside then it would be considered a biopsy procedure and not a lumpectomy. Ask your doctor for more information to exactly what you had done and what the pathology shows. If still without information consider having your pathology slides reviewed elsewhere to help answer this question along with your mammograms that apparently showed something that warranted further investigation. | ||
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