October 22nd, 2012

Unexpected news today....not good unfortunately.

Today Dawn's surgeon called unexpectedly to give her the final pathology reports from specimens taken during surgery.  If you remember my post last week, I reported that her lymph nodes showed no cancer cells.....it turns out that they did find one small 0.1mm cluster of cancer cells within the sentinel node that was removed.  She also said the the tumors were bigger in size than initially reported.  The smaller tumor was 3.5cm and the larger one was 4.2cm.  This didn't change the staging of her cancer though as it is still 2A.  She actually said that the lymph node would still be considered "clear" because the cluster of cells was not greater than 0.2cm, but that was enough for concern.  She confirmed that Dawn will DEFINITELY have to undergo chemotherapy treatments.  We will find out more on 11/6/12 when we meet with the oncologist.  


Please keep Dawn in your prayers, she has other obstacles to clear, but with the Grace of God and support from our family and friends she will be better than ever before you know it.