I just finished talking to the surgeon. The first procedure is complete. Dr. Degnim removed the tumor and three lymph nodes. Everything wentsmoothly and Trela is doing fine. In order to make sure that they removed all the cancer, they do pathology tests on the removed tissue immediately. The 3 lymph nodes were all cancer free according to the early tests, and she was able to remove the entire tumor and achive clear tumor free margins.
The tumor had not spread to the underlying muscle, also good news, though it was close to the skin, so they had to take a little more skin than they had planned on.
By now I'm sure that reconstruction (the placement of the expander under the skin has begun, and it is about a 90 minute procedure, then 1-2 hours of recovery time.
More to come...
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