Susie's surgeon just called with the pathology report. The good news is that of the 20-30 lymph nodes that were removed, only the sentinel node itself had cancer cells. One other had a few cells, but they still consider that negative.
The bad news is that the margins were not completely clean on the side where the tumor came in contact with her skin, so next week Susie will have to have a 20-minute procedure to remove some additional skin from the area, just to make sure all the tumor cells are removed.
This all means that Susie's cancer is Stage IIA.
The other good news to all this is that she can likely have a lighter regiment of chemo.
Will add more info as we get it...
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Susie,
First let me tell you...you in in my prayers.
Danny was nice enough to forward your blog to me. I was so suprised to hear the news.
You are so blessed to have such wonderful friends/family around you now. Take care Susie and again my prayers are with you.
God bless.... Andrew
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