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Happy Birthday from Her2
I have a birthday coming up tomorrow. I just got a Happy Birthday email from HER2. It has been a very long time since I have been on here. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in 2007. It is a long story told somewhere in the archives but I may not have been stage 4. I have been NED since later in 2007. At that time this forum was a lifeline. I made and lost friends here. I still stay in touch with some of them. I went to Denver as a volunteer one year (2008, I think) and met Joe and Christina. They were wonderful people. This was before Facebook and social media and I don't know how I would have managed without the wonderful people here. I haved moved forward and my life went back to normal eventually. I just wanted to touch base and say again what a special place this is.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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