Surgeon

OK, I've now spoken to the surgeon. Seems things are more complex than I'd realized regarding how cancer spreads.

Having cancer in one node is not as bad as having it in a lot of them. But it also means there is a higher chance that it has spread.

"Higher than what?" you ask. Higher than the 1 in 4 chance that any invasive cancer will have cells break off it and go floating around your body looking for a new place to try and kill you regardless of lymph node involvement.

I meet with her tomorrow, but she says it's "interesting" that the cancer was not in the sentinel node, where it usually is found, if anywhere. She may go back in and take out more nodes, but is not sure yet.

But chemo sounds like a definite to me now. Hoorah.

I'm NOT leaving the baby.