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Hi there. Mine took about three weeks and I also had to go into the office for results as they said that they could not give them over the phone. Mine were negative, and my original projection was that I had an 88.5% chance of being positive based on my family history and personal history. My report may have been extensive, but I was basically just told that I was negative, and that until new gene discoveries were made, that was all they knew. I saw a genetic counselor and a specialist with treating women's cancers. I was told that as new discoveries were made in the future, that I could be tested again for different genes, that because these results were negative, that that didn't mean that I didn't carry some other gene they hadn't discovered yet. Who knows....... I was very happy to be negative though.
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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