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no node test
by Anne29, Sep 18, 2007 01:31PM
I had two lumpectomies in April; one was just noise. The other, however had a 2 cm IDC tumor which was removed. I am triple positive. Surgeon was to do a sentinal node biopsy but anesthesiologist said that because my throat was too small for intubation, I could not be anesthetized deeply enough the the node part of the surgery. She said they could reschedule for fiberoptic intubation but that would mean postponing my surgery again and it had already been postponed a month because the surgeon had a family crisis. The decision was to go ahead with removing just the tumor as the follow-on treatment would be the same whether I was stage 2 or stage 3. I have had 4 rounds of AC, 5 of taxol and 4 of herceptin but my CA 27-29 marker went UP from 50 to 52 over the last month. How concerned should I be that the the marker is going in the wrong direction since we have no idea about node involvement? What questions should I be asking my oncologist next week?
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