I had ALL of the lymph nodes removed from my lower abdominal area during prostatectomy surgery. I didn’t know this would happen until afterwards. One of the first side effects was lymphedema, noticable swelling in one leg. It’s has improved since then, but I wish I would have been informed of this possibility.
During stomach cancer surgery as my stomach was removed and biopsied so were 15 abdominal lymph nodes. My Chemo was so strong and also so effective that no stage 3 cancer metastasizing cells remained anywhere. I knew they were going to do this and I don’t want to dispute the Sloan Kettering / MD Anderson SOP for something out of California.