Have just come back from my first holiday after surgery, chemo and rads and remembered my first post treatment mammo showed I had two metal plates around the site that the lump was removed - hence I set off all the security alarms and had to have a fairly invasive frisk!!! I can vaguely remember someone telling me about it at the time but its since been lost in the chemo fog of time!
Does anyone else on here know anything about it, why they are put in etc! And does chemo brain ever disappear completely!!!
Sorry I cannot help here but BUMPING up your message in the hope that someone will reply to you. Hugs from Val
Hi
Not 100% sure if this is what you mean, but could it be the titanium ( I think) markers they put in to show where your tumour was. Can’t quite remember why, other than in case they have to go back to get better margins. But I don’t think these markers see very big at all and I am surprised they set off alarms. Hope someone else comes a long with other ideas.
Debx
Hi I had metal markers put into tumour as I was a chemo first gal and it was expected that the chemo would shrink the lump so much that the surgeon would still need to aim for some tissue to remove.( It was put in under ulta sound guiding)
When I saw my path report some time later the metal marker did not show up and as I had a hol booked was a bit concerned that it might show up and I would be left explaining why the machine beeped. It didn’t beep and I now know that the marker is still there but v.v. tiny How awful for you not sure what metal mine was made of but must be something x-ray opaque. J xx
thanks for all the messages girls! I had surgery first and had to go back to increase the safety margins, then chemo before rads so it wasnt to show where the lump was if it shrunk. Still not sure, but these seemed pretty big when they showed up on the mammo. Not due for another check up until later in the summer so will try to remember to ask! Hopefully someone else will pop up with the answer before then!
Hi,
Not sure whether the metal marker is necessarily the answer why. I had a metal marker, but I thought the point was that it was put in where the lump is and then removed with the lump during the operation? I am assuming my “wire” has gone… x