2nd surgery next week
Hi friends 🫂 last month I (23F) had surgery to remove a tumor, which we thought was a cyst, on my inner right thigh, which was 3x3 cm. The dermatologist sent it to a lab, and the pathology report came back that it’s a type of soft tissue sarcoma called Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans- also known as DFSP. It’s a super rare form of sarcoma that develops in only 1 in a million people.
I’m having another surgery (tumor bed re-excision/wide excision) to remove the remaining cancer, but I’m worried about the healing timeline. I haven’t seen many people who have had a tumor removed from their inner thigh, or what that healing process will look like.
My first surgery left me with an open wound on my leg for 7 weeks because the stitches never closed in the area, as well as sending me to the hospital twice because of severe infection pain, apparently because it’s a super hard/awkward area to heal. Most of the tumor was located in my subcutaneous fat, so it’s pretty deep in there, as well as a lot of scar tissue that will be removed as well. The current scar is about 1x2”, but now I don’t even know how big the next one will be.
TLDR: how do you take care of a tumor removal from your inner thigh??