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FNA

by Evora, Feb 29, 2008 09:12PM
I am confused...my mom surgeon says that she is going to do a mastectomy and take a chunk of axillary nodes but no sentnels because she is taking the whole breast off.  We went for a second opinion and they preformed a FNA of the nodes but not the sentanels......I am reading that its the sentanels that are accurate in detecting speading of cancer to other parts of the body....Should I push for sentanels or are they going about this the correct the way...

Her stats are:
diagnosed 1-08
triple negative
invasive ductal
7:00 postions up aganist the chest wall
77 yrs of age

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