My Kidney Cancer Blog

My wife's follow-up test all came back okay every since she had her second re-excision done in order to remove her breast cancer tumor. She recently had an MRI done at a different hospital and they called her two days later, asking whether she's aware of a second clip in her breast. During the first surgery, the doctors put a clip in her breast. And we vaguely remember that they put in a second one during one of the re-excision. Because on the new MRI, there is a second one showing up. We asked whether they are sure if this is indeed a clip and not something else they see. They ensured us that it looks like a clip, but they cannot find any mention of it in any of the surgical reports.
On Thursday we picked up the report. Is says that they found suspicious things and then they clarified their findings. One of which is a NEW 1.2cm mass closely located to the initial tumor site. And a few other NEW smaller masses.
The first time I read the report, my heart stood still. After reading it a few more times, we felt a little bit better. First of all, that new mass is exactly in a spot where another benign lump was found when my wife had her biopsy done. It's in the exact same location with the same size. All the other smaller masses have been seen on previous reports, so we have no idea why they refer to them as NEW.
The “new” 1.2 mass – so it says in the report – could be that second ominous clip.
It would be very surprising if between her latest test, which was a couple of month ago, and now, a brand NEW 1.2cm would have developed all of a sudden.
Anyway, because of the long weekend we weren't able to speak to anybody. Hopefully tomorrow we will find out more.