Good Results

Mary Jo is doing well and recovering at home after a brief surgical biopsy procedure.  The procedure performed on her left breast as an outpatient day surgery at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville by plastic surgeon, Dr. Loung this past week.  The good news is that pathology results of the biopsyed tissue tested negative for malignant cells and consistent with scar tissue.  Mary Jo had been recently experiencing some pain and noticed a suspicious lump on her left breast (on the scar line from the reconstruction surgery).  We had consulted with Mary Jo's oncologist, Dr Gall and Mary Jo's reconstruction plastic surgeon, Dr Loung last week.  The doctors had both suspected that the questionable tissue was likely going to be scar tissue but the only conclusive option was to biopsy the tissue.  Dr loung said she wanted to do the procedure herself verses having a radiologist performing a less invasive needle biopsy.  Dr Loung made a small 1 1/2 -2" incision to get a good look inside the suspect area and removed a dime size piece of tissue for the pathology review.   Mary Jo will be going in for a follow up visit to Dr Loung on Tuesday and will have the stitches removed.  Mary Jo and I are very happy to be 100% sure that this was not cancer.