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Interesting email. However, do oncologists really know the chance of reocurrence for small early stage HER2 cancers? It seems to me that oncologists are still more biased toward staging(tumor size and nodes status versus Grading and HER2 status.
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DX 12/04/07 via mammogram(calcifications)-age 54-right breast
Biopsy revealed DCIS with 2mm of IDC-3 cores out of 5
HER2+ High Level Amplication per FISH(9.30 ratio)
Histologic Grade 2/3
architectural pattern: mostly cribriform with lobular cancerization
ER-(0)PR-(0)
12/20/07 Bilateral mastectomy. 2.5cm of DCIS plus Paget's disease of nipple (no additioanl IDC)
Node Negative-3 nodes per sentinel
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