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Hopeful · 09-01-2006, 04:11 AM

Dianaq,

My "gut" feeling is the same as yours. I am stage 1, 1.3 cm with 9 mm invasive and 10% intermediate DCIS, clean wide margins, sentinel node negative, ER+ 80%, PR+50%, HER2+++ by IHC, intermediate grade (B/R 7), Ki-67 boderline (low) 11%. My onc felt more comfortable doing chemo, and talked me into the Oncotype test, which scored at 41 (30% chance of recurrence) to try to convince me. As I said in the thread I started on that test, the pathology and the Oncotype do not seem concordant to me (of course, this is what the Oncotype people are selling - their test is better than the pathology report). I am currently doing radiation and Herceptin, and will continue on Herceptin alone for the balance of the year, and start Femara when I complete radiation. In the end, we have to do what we feel is right for us, and that is what we are doing. No one can make a choice for another person. Hang in there.

Hopeful

09-01-2006, 04:11 AM	#32
Hopeful Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,380	Dianaq, My "gut" feeling is the same as yours. I am stage 1, 1.3 cm with 9 mm invasive and 10% intermediate DCIS, clean wide margins, sentinel node negative, ER+ 80%, PR+50%, HER2+++ by IHC, intermediate grade (B/R 7), Ki-67 boderline (low) 11%. My onc felt more comfortable doing chemo, and talked me into the Oncotype test, which scored at 41 (30% chance of recurrence) to try to convince me. As I said in the thread I started on that test, the pathology and the Oncotype do not seem concordant to me (of course, this is what the Oncotype people are selling - their test is better than the pathology report). I am currently doing radiation and Herceptin, and will continue on Herceptin alone for the balance of the year, and start Femara when I complete radiation. In the end, we have to do what we feel is right for us, and that is what we are doing. No one can make a choice for another person. Hang in there. Hopeful Last edited by Hopeful; 09-01-2006 at 04:15 AM..