I had a masectomy six weeks ago and one lymph node removed which has some cancer in. 3 days ago I had axillary clearance (level 2) does anyone know what happens if cancer is found in these lymph nodes. Will they remove the rest of them (don’t really want more surgery)
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Really sorry that you had cancer in your lymph nodes and had to go back for a clearance up to level 2.
I had a talk to my Surgeon about this when weighing up the alternatives for my own Lymph nodes.
He said that there rarely did more than a level 2 clearance. Even for cancer in one Lymph node the practise is changing and now they don’t always do a level 2 clearance.
If you are pre-chemo and pre-rads you may find they they choose to treat any possible existing cancer using these methods or if HER2+ then Herceptin.
Sadly, what they do seems to vary from one NHS hospital to another. They may have a different attitude to my surgeon.