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Re: Neoadjuvant Roll Call
My understanding was pre-adjunct first to stop the spread of the cancer systemically because I had multiple tumors one being like 5 cm, another being 3.2 and then the rest tiny little ones that looked like someone sprinkled pepper all over. Then in my lymph nodes as well......So stop the spread of the cancer the GOAL with pre-adjunctive therapy. I had very little pathologic response if any, so I have no idea if it at least went through my system and killed all those little micro cancer cells in my body they could not see. On a positive note my BS got .5 cm clear margins at surgery!! Whoo, hooo. 
Hopefully, the Armidex I am now taking will take are of the ER+30 then went to ER+73 percent....I still don't know if that is a good thing or what that even means.
Sorry, but I am no help, because it is all VERY CONFUSING!!
On a positive note I had a complete body massage this weekend and Sunday I was sore has heck, but today my feet and hands feel a little better. It is Chinese reflexology which I find extremely fascinating. He told me after with a Asian accent that, "I had poor circulation in my feet" he can work on those and make body feel better!! He said my hands hurt too because nerves coming from my shoulders sooo tight that he can make better too....come back once a week (In my Mr. Miagi, Karaote kid voice). I did not tell him anything that hurt, so very COOL he figured it out. I don't know maybe because my toes were ICE cold..LOL
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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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