This is exactly the question I would have asked if I’d been in this position: “If I’m getting chemo and radiation, why are you taking out the lymph nodes?”
My guess is, a lot of women did ask that question. And the surgeons told them to stop that crazy talk and just let the doctors do their job.
I smelled a rat. Now that I’ve bankrupted, lost my home, career and marriage and live in a storage unit not too far from the river… ’tis moot. It was all a scam, and in the end it cost me everything I had.
I have a list titled When the Revolution Gets Here. Cancer Doctors are up there with mid-level technology managers, religious freaks and International Bankers.
Actually when I was diagnosed three years ago my doctor and I did discuss this issue and I only lost one lymph node. Maybe it was because “she” was really up on the latest studies.