HI,
I'm hoping someone could offer some advice as I find knowing what is coming over the hill helps me and my family. My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in March. She had a lumpectomy in May when three lymph nodes were removed. Two of these lymph nodes tested positive for cancer. She is now due to have axillary node clearance this week. I understand that if the results are good we will revert back to radiotherapy, but if the cancer has spread further throughout the lymph nodes is there a chance that the next steps will change to involve more surgery or chemo? I appreciate sometimes it is difficult to predict the results of the procedures, but it just helps me (and my mum) to know what the options are. We should have really asked at our last appointment but we were both upset that the cancer was found in the lymph nodes when the MRI scan seemed to indicate that it hadn't spread at all.
Many thanks in advance of your replies.