Before I started my first chemotherapy I still had to have one more surgery. This surgery is removing lymph nodes under the arm to be sure that the cancer had not spread beyond the initial site in the breast and to place the medi-port. The medi-port will be used to infuse the chemotherapy. There are different methods that the surgeon could use to choose what lymph nodes to the one I wish my surgeon had done is called a sentinel node dissection. With this the surgeon removes the lymph node closest to the tumor, if this lymph node shows no … Continue reading →