Saddened Over Mastectomy

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As some of you may know, my sister has cancer. She underwent mastectomy 3 weeks ago. This monday, we have learned that out of 21 lymph nodes taken from her, 3 were infected with tumor cells. Even with this minimal count, she was required to undergo chemotherapy for 6 sessions. Anyway, what saddened my sister was that she felt she had been too much in a hurry to have undergone mastectomy only to find out that initial specimen (when she had excision biopsy) were the only portions that are positive of cancer and nowhere else in her mammary glands even in the aureolar ducts. I told her not to be dismayed with the mastectomy because as the surgeon do not want to risk leaving a single tumor cell behind. The tricky part of tumor cells is that you do not know where they are located or where else they have spread. Even so, she wished that the surgical procedure has been a little more conservative. She still wished that her right br"ast is still intact... Just the same, it is no use crying over spilled milk because the surgery has been done and that we are now looking forward to chemotherapy. I dont know what else to say to her. I only know that doctors decide which is better for the patient. One cannot be hasty enough to treat cancer. I told her not to fuss over the lost boobie because we can look for a prosthetic boobie in Manila. I may kid around on her on that but she still wished she has hers. I dont know what else to say to her... With cancer, we dont want to take any chances.