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linn65 · 03-06-2013, 04:03 PM

It is weird but I don't feel like I have cancer anymore. I feel like they have been so aggressive with treatment that surely all this treatment took it away. Hopefully, wearing a bra tomorrow I won't swell up like I did after Saturday wearing on for an hour. I wanted to watch my sons ball game, and because I have my right breast still I feel naked without a bra on.

I am hoping doing herceptin alone with nothing else I will do okay. The last time I had it on Wednesday and by Friday night I felt fluish. However, the last two herceptin's I was doing rads too so I don't know what it will be like herceptin alone. I sure am keeping my fingers crossed it Is smooth sailing! My rad doctor did say the first two years are the most likely for reoccurrence and that will be my first stepping stone.

My breast surgeon won't use the word "cure" or its all gone. He said the only way I have to know if its gone is time. The longer I go the better odds I have! I know for sure when he orders my 6 months scans I am asking for a brain MRI too just because of this board. Maybe he will do one but if not I wouldn't know to ask for one either.

03-06-2013, 04:03 PM	#20
linn65 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Attica, IN Posts: 371	Re: I think cancer treatment can be in humane It is weird but I don't feel like I have cancer anymore. I feel like they have been so aggressive with treatment that surely all this treatment took it away. Hopefully, wearing a bra tomorrow I won't swell up like I did after Saturday wearing on for an hour. I wanted to watch my sons ball game, and because I have my right breast still I feel naked without a bra on. I am hoping doing herceptin alone with nothing else I will do okay. The last time I had it on Wednesday and by Friday night I felt fluish. However, the last two herceptin's I was doing rads too so I don't know what it will be like herceptin alone. I sure am keeping my fingers crossed it Is smooth sailing! My rad doctor did say the first two years are the most likely for reoccurrence and that will be my first stepping stone. My breast surgeon won't use the word "cure" or its all gone. He said the only way I have to know if its gone is time. The longer I go the better odds I have! I know for sure when he orders my 6 months scans I am asking for a brain MRI too just because of this board. Maybe he will do one but if not I wouldn't know to ask for one either. __________________ myleftlump.wordpress.com - started blogging my IDC breast cancer 7/2012 diagnosed with multiple solid lesions 7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2 9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant 9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo. 12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj. Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow. 12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9 Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma Areas of angiolymphatic are identified Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep Margin of excision Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes. Size of largest node 1.5 cm Extracapsular ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+ 2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished 2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years. 8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks. BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast. February 2014 Nip & Tuck March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port. August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in. 3/18/15 stopped arimidex. 3/18/15 progression....Tdm1