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Old 04-18-2008, 02:04 AM   #9
RhondaH
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Smile I remember my surgeon asking me before we even

KNEW it was cancer "so, do you want me to biopsy it or just take it out" as I told him, "I'm not THAT vain OR attached to it...so take it out" and he only did the excisional biopsy and later went in to clean the margins which were fine.

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Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)

2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)


" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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