Hi Whitty and welcome to the Cancer Chat community.

Hopefully some of our members will be along soon to share their experiences and advice but I hope this information about having a sentinel lymph node biopsy will be useful too.

If you feel it may help to talk things through with someone, do feel free to give our cancer nurses a call. They're available on 0808 800 4040, Monday - Friday between 9a.m - 5p.m and will do all they can to answer your questions and address your concerns about having this done.

I hope this helps and if you decide to go ahead with the biopsy, that all goes well with the procedure when the time comes.

Kind regards,

Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi I'm the same as you at the moment ,I've had the first operation where the tumor was ,now I have to have the wide exician done and having the sentimal at the same time ,I've had my pre op about 5 weeks ago still waiting for date of op .my scar from first op keeps hurting and a ache under my arm wish they would do it soon and get it over with hope you get on ok x