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Mary Jo is expecting to be released from the hospital tomorrow (Saturday). MJ rested well today as her doctors seem to have gotten her pain reasonably managed as of this message.
Mary Jo's surgeon visited a short time ago and briefed us on the pathology reports from the double mastectomy and the auxiliary lymph node dissection procedure that he performed Wednesday. The results were a bit of an unpleasant surprise to all of us. Pathology reported that the tumor size in the right breast was in fact a little larger than detected from the various CT, PET, Ultrasound and Mammogram imaging procedures. We expected the tumor in the right breast to be 1.7 cm and in turned out to be a 2.2 cm Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, ILC tumor. The lymph node dissection procedure removed 22 lymph nodes under Mary Jo's right arm, of the 22 removed, 7 tested positive for cancer. We had hoped, best case that this number would have been only the 1 known node. The bigger surprise came from the left breast report. The pathology report showed that the removed breast tissue tested positive for Invasive Ductile Carcinoma, or IDC which is a different type of invasive breast cancer. Mary Jo's left breast had a 9 mm invasive tumor growing that was undetected by all the modern imaging procedures. Mary Jo's Sentinel Node from the left under arm was removed and tested, fortunately that result was negative.
We still feel very blessed that Mary Jo detected this cancer in the relatively early stages. It is so much better to be dealing with this now than blissfully ignorant and dealing with something very different in the near feature. The surgeon, Dr Maurer placed Mary Jo as a stage 2B. The definitive staging number will come from Mary Jo's oncologist, Dr. Gall when we meet with him next week.
Thank you again for all your support through your thoughts and prayers. We feel very blessed to have all the support we continue to receive. I will try to update everyone as soon as I know more.
Mary Jo's surgeon visited a short time ago and briefed us on the pathology reports from the double mastectomy and the auxiliary lymph node dissection procedure that he performed Wednesday. The results were a bit of an unpleasant surprise to all of us. Pathology reported that the tumor size in the right breast was in fact a little larger than detected from the various CT, PET, Ultrasound and Mammogram imaging procedures. We expected the tumor in the right breast to be 1.7 cm and in turned out to be a 2.2 cm Invasive Lobular Carcinoma, ILC tumor. The lymph node dissection procedure removed 22 lymph nodes under Mary Jo's right arm, of the 22 removed, 7 tested positive for cancer. We had hoped, best case that this number would have been only the 1 known node. The bigger surprise came from the left breast report. The pathology report showed that the removed breast tissue tested positive for Invasive Ductile Carcinoma, or IDC which is a different type of invasive breast cancer. Mary Jo's left breast had a 9 mm invasive tumor growing that was undetected by all the modern imaging procedures. Mary Jo's Sentinel Node from the left under arm was removed and tested, fortunately that result was negative.
We still feel very blessed that Mary Jo detected this cancer in the relatively early stages. It is so much better to be dealing with this now than blissfully ignorant and dealing with something very different in the near feature. The surgeon, Dr Maurer placed Mary Jo as a stage 2B. The definitive staging number will come from Mary Jo's oncologist, Dr. Gall when we meet with him next week.
Thank you again for all your support through your thoughts and prayers. We feel very blessed to have all the support we continue to receive. I will try to update everyone as soon as I know more.
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