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After Chemo how long does it stay in system
I was just wondering or thinking I had my masectomy 3 weeks to the day after my chemo was finished. If Chemo stays in your system for so long and even though your path from the masectomy says certain things about your cancer. With chemo still in your system is it still working on any cancer cells that are on the loose and running around your blood stream?
Just a lot of thoughts going through my head, and I have a doctor's appt on August 5th. I am trying to make sure I am prepared to ask him anything I need to know or should know. For example, I never noticed until this last week that I have a 5.5 CM cyst or something on my Ovary and it was never mentioned to me before.
I haven't looked at my pathology report since December, but I suppose preparing for this last doctor's appt with BC doctor for another 6 months I wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything to ask him.
Even thinking about the tumors on my right side, and I read last night that if they are certain types of tumors then they have a higher risk of developing into BC.
I guess you can tell I only have two more herceptin's left and I am feeling a little fearful.
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IDC breast cancer
7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions
7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant
9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.
12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.
12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+
2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished
2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.
8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.
BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative
August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.
3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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