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Ms. Toad

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27. Thanks!

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #24)

Tue Dec 8, 2020, 12:09 PM

Dec 2020

The best that I can hope for is that the "Woops!" excision of a lump they presumed was benign does not interfere with gettin a 2-3 cm clean margin to prevent recurrence. If that works, my 5-year survival odds are near 100%.

(General survival for this kind of cancer is between 40 and 60% - but most of them aren't identified until they are golf ball sized; mine was kidney-bean sized. I can't imagine being put off by a doctor until the lump was that big . . . )

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