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Mary Jo...
I know what you mean. I was dx using an excisional biopsy (he knew it was a lump, but didn't know if it was cancerous, asked me if I wanted it and would do a core biopsy, but I said no, take it out) on 2/1/05 and the surgeon went back in on 2/7/05 (cancelled another surgery to get me in so soon) making sure the margins were clean and checking 6 lymph nodes. The week after my partial mastectomy I had chest x ray, blood tests and bone scan. I began 6 rounds of dose dense TEC 3 weeks after surgery, finishing on 5/18/05, began 33 rads 3 weeks after finishing chemo finishing on 8/1/05 and beginning Herceptin 8/18/05 and finishing 8/10/06. I talk to others who are FAR worse off than me and wait MONTHS to begin treatment. I'm THANKFUL, my docs moved fast. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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