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Old 01-21-2014, 06:49 AM   #9
linn65
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Re: New Oncologoist needed - Final Straw

Julie,

Your ONC is my kind of ONC I would like to have!! Listens, understands and takes the time to teach me which makes me feel better. I see exactly what you have said about people just doing and following along what the doctor tells them without question. I am not trying to be argumentative with my ONC, but I am not the type of person that just follows along blindly with anything I do in life. I am a question asker.....(It does get me in trouble). It is not because I am questioning people its because I am trying to understand and learn, but I know sometimes people take it the wrong way like I am questioning them and then I explain myself to a fault and that can get me in trouble too.

Thank you Julie for your encouragement!! Instead of an Angel fight to NY and Angel flight to CA....Awww sounds nice.
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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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