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Re: Wisdom and experience needed!
Hi Mickey,
The answer might depend on what your chemo mix is. Some people now do just 4 TCH treatments and others do 6. If 4 has been proven to be as effective than 6 than I don't understand why they would have you do all 6 if you were not tolerating it.
I noticed that you are stage III but you don't have any node involvement or metastasis? That would influence my decision about that last treatment too. I had a 9 cm tumor with only micrometasis in the sentinal node and I was staged at II.
Shirley
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- Age 54 at dx (April '13) Stage 2b, grade 3
- ER+ PR+ HER+, 9 cm tumor one breast and <0.5 cm in sentinal node
- BRCA1 and 2 negative
- Neoadjuvant TCH chemo started 5-15-13 (4 rounds, 3 weeks apart)
- Unilateral Mx w/expander 8-22-13 (right side)
- 5/5 nodes Neg
- clear margins but close. Tumor at removal down to 2.2 cm.
- Radiation 6 wks starting 10-17-13.
- Herceptin every 3 weeks until 4-23-14
- DIEP/Mastopexy 10-8-14, U of WA
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