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Rianina , I agree it will be difficult to tease out the exact number for recurrence. The way my onc stated it, you reduce your recurrence by 70% with surgery and rads. I think it may be 60% for HER2+. Than you take off 10% for AC and taxol combined. Then another 4% for hormonals and then another 5% for Herceptin. I don't take a lot of stock in the statistics. Think Breast Cancer for Dummies.
In my mind size doesn't matter. That's the only thing keeping you from being higher staged. I don't know lots about medicine, but if taxol and Herceptin are recommended for stage 2, why not stage 1?
Also I've read some studies for other cancers that say taxol sensitizes the cancer cells for rads. Also taxol and H are a great synergy.
If your path says grade 3, or 7 thru 9 on Bloom Richardson scale, moderately to highly differentiated, I would ask the onc. why not?
Some people do get great pain from taxol. I dodged that bullet. No problems. It's a fair question to ask.
Best of luck, BB
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