okay someone help me out a little...
Hello aain everyone... **sigh**
Another update... so I had my mastectomy last THursday and my surgeon called late this afternoon with the pathologist's report...and... well things dont look so great. 27 nodes taken out 9 of them with cancer..... still had cancer inside the chest area...looks like I will need radiation now.... Surgeon told me that my battle wont be with cancer in the breast anymore but with mets...although preliminary scans have shown nothing so far...he siad with that many lymph node involved it's bound to happen.... nothing else he can do surgically....**sigh** He said after taking the whole breast the margin was clear but the cancer was wall to wall...so he said "not really clear like we would like to see"...... I am sure there are many of you with large cancers and lymph node involvement was your prognosis the same... and does radiation give me that much of a better chance? Any advice would be great and can some one tell me a little more about radiation and the side effects of it?
Thank you
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Tricia Velasquez
Bakersfield, Ca
dx Jan 4 2007
er+/pr- her2 +++ Stage 3b
several tumors
largest 7cm
port placed on Jan 18, 2007
Chemo started Jan 22, 2007
Herceptin/ Taxol every 3d week and then my Dr changed me to Taxotere/Carboplatin/Herceptin
every 3d week
Right Mastectomy w/ Lymph Node Dissection 4/19/07
27 removed 9 positive
Margins-clear but wall to wall
Radiation scheduled for 6/07
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