Spoke with Surgeon

He will have his secretary make copies of the operating and pathology reports that I can pick up. We also talked a bit about the situation.

He feels strongly that it was not a lymph node based on the fact that Sarcomas do not affect Lymphatic tissue, they affect connective tissue; if it was the lymph node was completely obliterated. As far as stages he indicated that Sarcoma is agressive so this would be a high stage, but he was more insistant that it be referred to in "grade," thus a high grade tumor. He stated that the Seattle cancer care will want to do further surgery and remove a large margin of tissue surrounding the area,; he stated Sarcoma surgeons are very aggressive in that regard. He didn't know if it would be followed up with chemo/radio or any combination of the two, but he suspected radiology. He stated this is not the largest one he's ever seen and I'm lucky I'm a less massive individual since a smaller mass is more obvious, sooner.