Anybody has experience with internal maamary nodes and how you got it resolved
 

Hi Everybody,

I have an internalmammary node which appeared suddenly while I was in TDM-1. And it grew so rapidly that it started pressing my sternum. Anybody trated them successfully with non chemo options? like cyberknife or surgery or something else?

Thanks,
Julie

Re: Anybody has experience with internal maamary nodes and how you got it resolved
 

We got mine with my breast radiation. IMRT. I hVe recurred in the lungs, but the mammory nodes have never shown any cancer since my scan before any treatment.

Re: Anybody has experience with internal maamary nodes and how you got it resolved
 

Julie,

I had a friend who I met in my local bc support group. Her first recurrence was in a mammary node. She was given chemo, and it went away. Then it came back. Then she was given radiation. And it went away. Then it came back. Then a surgeon removed it so it never came back again.

About 6 months after that the cancer spread to the pleura of her lung. Unfortunately, she developed congestive heart failure from a virus, and her oncologist was then limited in the types of chemo she could administer. My friend was also triple negative.

Your signature indicates that you're stage 3b. I didn't realize that a T-DM1 trial would accept patients that were not stage 4. I'm mentioning this because surgery would probably depend on where else you had mets.

Joan