I was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the end of nov 22, I had a high anterior resection in early January. In early February I went to get my results of the resection and to find out if I needed further treatment. They said that they could only find 2 lymph nodes and that they had seen 3 lesions on my liver. After a very very long feeling week, the nurse rang me back to tell me that the lesions we hemangeomas and harmless. And that they had rechecked and found 10more lymph nodes that were all clear. I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m very worried about the results. When the resection was done, do the surgeons take out a large chunk of flesh and search through it once removed for the lymph nodes, in a lab or something, or do they look for individual nodes to remove during the resection? Also are they able to go back and look at the removed bowel for more nodes 3-4weeks after the resection? Thanks
