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suzan w · 10-28-2005, 05:56 AM

I was dx'd in May 2005, invasive lobular. Had bilateral mastectomy, small (8mm) tumor, node neg, ER+. PR+, Her2+. Had fish test done (2.94-relatively low). Onc. said if it weren't for the Her2+ I would not be a candidate for chemo...arimidex for ER+. And the fish 'score' was fairly low. I had an oncotype DX test done, and it came back in the high intermediate range. The onc. was surprised that it was so high. Lobular is agressive, and combined with Her2...more so??? Anyway, I opted for 4 rounds of A/C and am now doing herceptin for a year (at least) and arimidex for 5 years. It was the results of the oncotype DX that convinced me. I have not run into many women with invasive lobular and would love to hear from them!!!

10-28-2005, 05:56 AM	#7
suzan w Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Naples FL Posts: 1,747	I was dx'd in May 2005, invasive lobular. Had bilateral mastectomy, small (8mm) tumor, node neg, ER+. PR+, Her2+. Had fish test done (2.94-relatively low). Onc. said if it weren't for the Her2+ I would not be a candidate for chemo...arimidex for ER+. And the fish 'score' was fairly low. I had an oncotype DX test done, and it came back in the high intermediate range. The onc. was surprised that it was so high. Lobular is agressive, and combined with Her2...more so??? Anyway, I opted for 4 rounds of A/C and am now doing herceptin for a year (at least) and arimidex for 5 years. It was the results of the oncotype DX that convinced me. I have not run into many women with invasive lobular and would love to hear from them!!!