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Irma,
Sorry that you didn't get the results you were hoping for. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Did the surgeon get clean margins with the lumpectomy? If he did then I would see no reason why you would have to have a mastectomy. As for the lymph nodes -- if they removed 5 and only 1 was positive I don't see why they they would have remove any more. I would definitely think that you would require radiaiton but as for a mastectomy, I don't think so unless they didn't get a clear margin with the actual lumpectomy. If I were you I would ask for a copy of my pathology report and I would also get a second opinion. Hang in there!
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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