Some thoughts (take with a grain of salt as I am still in training!) -- I would also be concerned about resistant strains, especially with a lot of interventions. Not only resistant bacteria, but resistant yeast, as fluconazole-resistance has definitely been described when trauma patients were prophylaxed. Could you list the antibiotics she had received? Also, what type of biopsy was performed? I don't actually know what the sensitivity of a core needle biopsy is for inflammatory breast cancer, but if that was the type, they might have missed it. Incidentally, as a likely future breast surgeon, I'd love to hear what you did not like about the surgeon's incision. Shannon Tierney McElearney, MD Research Fellow, Surgical Infectious Diseases Research Lab Department of Surgery University of Virginia mom to 15 mo old still-breastfed Jack p.s. thanks to you lovely ladies I spent the better part of the morning writing letters to NIH and CareNet! Activism before work, I guess... *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html