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linn65 · 07-19-2013, 07:49 AM

With two very large tumors but very good path reports. I wonder if he thought of Chemo first to shrink the tumors and then she could save her breasts and possibly do a lumpectomy???

Don't panic, and I know that is hard to do because I have. However, you have time to make the best decision for both of you. Call and get a second opinion with another Breast Surgeon that would be advisable too.

Also, I do not have cancer in both breasts just the left. I have talked to 2 Breast Surgeons, 1 Plastic surgeon at different times because I have worried about the benign tumors on the right. They said there is only a 1% chance that I will get cancer on the other side, but if I wanted to remove my right breast for symetry then insurance would pay for it.

Your plates full.....Breath because it takes a while to digest all these things!!

Good luck, and I am sure everything will go just how it should with a well informed decision.

07-19-2013, 07:49 AM	#5
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: My Wife Rachel Was Just Diagnosed Wtih HER-2+ Breast Cancer (Please Help ...) With two very large tumors but very good path reports. I wonder if he thought of Chemo first to shrink the tumors and then she could save her breasts and possibly do a lumpectomy??? Don't panic, and I know that is hard to do because I have. However, you have time to make the best decision for both of you. Call and get a second opinion with another Breast Surgeon that would be advisable too. Also, I do not have cancer in both breasts just the left. I have talked to 2 Breast Surgeons, 1 Plastic surgeon at different times because I have worried about the benign tumors on the right. They said there is only a 1% chance that I will get cancer on the other side, but if I wanted to remove my right breast for symetry then insurance would pay for it. Your plates full.....Breath because it takes a while to digest all these things!! Good luck, and I am sure everything will go just how it should with a well informed decision. __________________ myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my 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