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Subject: Lisa's Pathology
Well we are back from the hospital and not with warm and fuzzies... As we knew the pathology that was done at the time of the Mastectomy was simple and not "in depth". This report is and here are the facts:

Type: Invasive Lobular carcinoma
Grade: 2
Margins: clear
Estrogen receptor: positive
Progesterone: positive
HER2/neu: negative

13 lymph nodes were taken: 3  sentinel nodes of which all 3 had tumors and 1 of the 3 had extranodal extension and 10 auxiliary nodes of which 2 had tumors.

So bottom line here is a few more lymph nodes than we originally thought are cancerous. With that the next step is to find out where (if anywhere) this has gone and to do that on Friday Lisa gets a CAT Scan (organs) and then next Wednesday another scan called a  PET scan (bones).

They left the drains in and will look again Friday on taking them out. They started her on antibiotics because of some reddening around the wounds And so we wait. 
James and Lisa