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dawny · 11-11-2013, 03:53 AM

Thank you all for your help and good wishes. I am starting radiation tomorrow on the lymph nodes in the sternum, 15 days at a whopping strength, apparently.

The brain scan came back clear, and surprisingly so did the biopsies of the breast lump! My breast surgeon who performed the biopsies in her office, says there is a good possibility that she missed the lump. So after I finish rads, I will go back to my original breast clinic, and have an ultrasound guided biopsy. I would love it to really be negative, but since it is the third breast lump, I think it will be positive. I will then have a mastectomy. Ooh, I wonder if I can have that done just before Christmas, surely that would get me out of holding cooking at my house! Lol

Dawn xx

11-11-2013, 03:53 AM	#20
dawny Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Geelong, Australia Posts: 250	Re: Progression. :( Thank you all for your help and good wishes. I am starting radiation tomorrow on the lymph nodes in the sternum, 15 days at a whopping strength, apparently. The brain scan came back clear, and surprisingly so did the biopsies of the breast lump! My breast surgeon who performed the biopsies in her office, says there is a good possibility that she missed the lump. So after I finish rads, I will go back to my original breast clinic, and have an ultrasound guided biopsy. I would love it to really be negative, but since it is the third breast lump, I think it will be positive. I will then have a mastectomy. Ooh, I wonder if I can have that done just before Christmas, surely that would get me out of holding cooking at my house! Lol Dawn xx __________________ Dx May 27 2011, age 43 Stage 1V 3.6cm breast lump, spot on lungs, nodes chest + neck HER2+ ER/PR- Abraxane weekly - 16 weeks Herceptin every third week September 26 2011 N.E.D! Herceptin ongoing 8th Dec 2011 Brain MRI - clear 20th Dec 2011 bone/cat scan clear still NED April 2012 scans show axillary node lump - ? what to do... June 2012 Axillary node dissection 1/11 nodes affected, a wide local excision shows DCIS. Now what to do again? Watch and scan 3 monthly April 2013, two spots in nodes to chest wall, start TDM1 (Kadcycla) as part of clinical trial July 2013 stable Oct 2013 progression off TDM-1 (Kadcycla) Nov 2013 radiation to lymph nodes in sternum Dec 2013. Mastectomy right side, pathology shows tumour was HER-2 negative, no wonder TDM-1 (Kadcycla) didn’t work! April 2014 NED. On Herceptin only August 2014 NED. On Herceptin only March 2015. NED. On Herceptin only September 2015 NED on Herceptin only March 2016. Pulmonary embolism, Clexane injections daily forever. Still NED On Herceptin only Nov 2016. Bone Mets in ribs - Radiation. Don’t know if bone Mets are er-/pr-/HER2+ or triple negative. Can’t give self injections on to tablets (Xarelto) for blood clots. 2017 NED - On Herceptin only 2018 NED - On Herceptin only 2019 NED - On Herceptin only 2020 NED - On Herceptin only 2021 NED - On Herceptin only