has anyone ever had keyhole surgery?

[KirstieCowan]

Surgeon told hubby very unlikely to find cancer as he had 100% chorio. He has been hcg free for 4 months now. What r the thoughts on keyhole for low risk? Mass didnt skrink after tip and it went from 8cm to 2.8 after bep. Surgeon said this is tiny. Only 2 enlarged nodes

[CW406]

My understanding is that L-RPLND is considered a better tool for removing known, targeted masses like this than it is as a general diagnostic and curative procedure, where open RPLND is still preferred.

I had a laparoscopic hernia repair and the recovery was amazingly quick; 2 weeks later it was like nothing had happened.

[julesTO]

Hi Kristie,

My understanding is that anything over 1cm is considered suspicious, whether there is HCG present or not. The fact that your doc considers a 2.8cm node to be "tiny" and "very unlikely to be cancer" is confusing at best.

I would suggest contacting Dr. Einhorn about your husband's case - you don't want to mess around with chorio and he's the expert.

All the best to you both.

[KirstieCowan]

Thanks for that. I am pretty sure i read somewhere that chorio has a lesser chance of containing teratoma. And the fact that my hubby had a amazing reponse to bep and it stayed away 5 months and came back but with tip it went down on first week. Another dr said some lymph nodes never go back to normal.