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Jojo - I know what you mean (you're thinking of the YSC post of the 52 year survivor, right?) I ask the same questions, almost never with tumor grade though. Tumor grade is not as predictive of prognosis as other factors. Namely, staging is one of the top - lots of lymph nodes high up on the list, followed by large primary, etc. Usually what happens is that your grade follows the other stuff. There are lots of women out there who are stage 1 whether they are grade 1 or 2 or 3 and do fine.
Now, when I hear stories of women who had 20+ nodes or a 8 cm tumor with half a dozen nodes and didn't even do chemo because it wasn't around, then I'm encouraged!
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