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| 4/11/2012 | I have had two excisional biopsies with no clear margins and DCIS on right. I plan to have a double mastectomy. When I asked my surgeon whether I should do a sentinel node biopsy prior to the mastectomies, he said in this case it was unnecessary / not an invasive enough cancer. If more cancer / differenct kind of cancer is found post op by pathology,will I then need an axillary node dissection? | ||
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| 4/11/2012 | you are correct to be asking this question and correct that you'd have to default to an ax dissection if pathology found invasive cells among the remaining breast tissue. if you want to come to us, we are happy to help you. you need a breast surgical oncologist and a breast reconstruction surgeon. just call 443-287-2778. | ||
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