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TNM staging not accurate?
Hello friends,
I've been doing some reading on the TNM staging system and I see there are some opinions that the biology of the breast cancer is what is really important. So, does that mean that because I'm ER/PR-, Her2 + and had a grade 3 tumor that my prognosis is not good? My oncologist has told me that my risk of recurrence is about ten percent after surgery and treatment. I even asked him if he was talking about my five year survival rate and he said no, that it was my lifetime risk of recurrence. I know everyone is different....and one can never know. Just wondering about the TNM system and its accuracy. Thank you!
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Dx at 33 in May 2011
IDC and DCIS in left breast
ER-/PR-Her2+
Stage 2A (T1aN1miM0)
Left Mastectomy
A/C x 4
Taxol and Herceptin x 12
Herceptin every three weeks
Prophylactic Right Mastectomy and expanders on both sides June 28, 2012
May 2012 Bone scan, CT, breast MRI all normal
September 2012 Finished Herceptin
February 25, 2013 exchange surgery and port out
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