08-16-2013, 01:58 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakewood, WA
Posts: 56
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Re: How many progress to Stage IV?
I found this statistic in a NYT article from Jan 2011. As others have cautioned, these stats probably include women that did not receive Herceptin. It is also not limited to HER2+ cancer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/health/18cancer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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Of women who are given a diagnosis of breast cancer, only 4 percent to 6 percent are at Stage 4 at the time of diagnosis, meaning the cancer has already metastasized, or spread, to distant sites in the body. But about 25 percent of those with early-stage disease develop metastatic forms, with an estimated 49,000 new diagnoses each year, according to the American Cancer Society.
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- Age 54 at dx (April '13) Stage 2b, grade 3
- ER+ PR+ HER+, 9 cm tumor one breast and <0.5 cm in sentinal node
- BRCA1 and 2 negative
- Neoadjuvant TCH chemo started 5-15-13 (4 rounds, 3 weeks apart)
- Unilateral Mx w/expander 8-22-13 (right side)
- 5/5 nodes Neg
- clear margins but close. Tumor at removal down to 2.2 cm.
- Radiation 6 wks starting 10-17-13.
- Herceptin every 3 weeks until 4-23-14
- DIEP/Mastopexy 10-8-14, U of WA
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