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Ruth · 12-20-2008, 10:53 AM

Hi Steph - This really popped out at me. I had extremely dense breasts and my tumor in the breast wasn't considered that big (medium I think) but boy did I have lots of positive nodes. My nodes were also big in size. I used to think it was because I was nursing and pregnancy hormones that my nodes were so involved but I have talked to other mom's who were pregnant or nursing at diagnosis and they didn't have as many nodes positive. Also a lot of them were ER positive and I wasn't at all. I often wondered if something was different for me.

Thanks and hope you are doing well!

Ruth

12-20-2008, 10:53 AM	#7
Ruth Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Watkinsville, Georgia Posts: 357	Hi Steph - This really popped out at me. I had extremely dense breasts and my tumor in the breast wasn't considered that big (medium I think) but boy did I have lots of positive nodes. My nodes were also big in size. I used to think it was because I was nursing and pregnancy hormones that my nodes were so involved but I have talked to other mom's who were pregnant or nursing at diagnosis and they didn't have as many nodes positive. Also a lot of them were ER positive and I wasn't at all. I often wondered if something was different for me. Thanks and hope you are doing well! Ruth __________________ [/SIGPIC]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Diagnosed 6/03 nursing daughter Dose dense A/C 4x Modified rad mast 8/03 IDC; 3 cm; 10+/16 nodes; ER/PR-; Her2+++ Weekly taxol w/Herceptin (off label) 12x's 40 weeks Herceptin Radiation 33x Reconstruction w/ implants 05 & 07 NED