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dbronson1 · 09-18-2007, 02:35 PM

Hi,

This is my first post. I think it depends on the kind of port. I have had my port since Dec. 21, 2006, and have had NO problems at all with it. It is a Bard brand port with metal inner and outer access. My brother in law had a total plastic port and had to have it replaced 3 times. Good luck to your wife. I also had a 6 cm tumor HER2 +, with right axillary lymph node involvement. After having all my chemo up front, I had to only have a lumpectomy (tumor shrunk to undetectable) and a lymph node dissection. My pathology report came back Cancer free. I am now on Herceptin until next April. Praise God. I am having some problems with the Herceptin, just started to have allergic reactions, so that is why I joined this site.
If your wife's PET scan showed no lymph node involvement, then I would not worry about it. Did she have a breast MRI? That also would show it.

09-18-2007, 02:35 PM	#18
dbronson1 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3	To port, or not to port? Hi, This is my first post. I think it depends on the kind of port. I have had my port since Dec. 21, 2006, and have had NO problems at all with it. It is a Bard brand port with metal inner and outer access. My brother in law had a total plastic port and had to have it replaced 3 times. Good luck to your wife. I also had a 6 cm tumor HER2 +, with right axillary lymph node involvement. After having all my chemo up front, I had to only have a lumpectomy (tumor shrunk to undetectable) and a lymph node dissection. My pathology report came back Cancer free. I am now on Herceptin until next April. Praise God. I am having some problems with the Herceptin, just started to have allergic reactions, so that is why I joined this site. If your wife's PET scan showed no lymph node involvement, then I would not worry about it. Did she have a breast MRI? That also would show it.