Seroma Madness: It has been 7 months since my mastectomy and the seroma continues to drain. The good news is that after 25 radiation treatments, the malignant cells in the drain fluid are gone. Radiation apparently destroyed the source of the cancer cells. My breast surgeon had no idea what to do next. Her approach seemed to be a combina…[more]

In 1992, at 57, I was diagnosed with a small Stage 1 infiltrating ductal carcinoma with one positive lymph node in the left breast. 22 out of 22 axilla nodes were negative. I had a lumpectomy, 30 sessions of radiation, and 6 chemotherapy sessions of CMF. Except for the nausea related to chemotherapy, I did relatively well during treatment. Prior to my treatmen…[more]