Hi, I was recently diagnosed with ILC which was confirmed following a biopsy. A biopsy on a swollen lymph node confirmed spread there too. My MRI and CT scans have confirmed this and didn’t show any further spread. I am oestrogen positive and HERS negative.

This was all the result of screening and has happened over the last four weeks. Am still trying to process it. Am booked in for surgery next week. A lumpectomy and full lymph node clearance. What I am trying to find out is whether I will need chemo. I had accepted I will need radiotherapy and hormone blockers for at least 5 years.  I am now worried that because of the lymph node involvement I will certainly need chemo.  The Consultant didn’t mention the follow up treatment.