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Old 08-28-2014, 02:47 PM   #35
linn65
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Re: Went for mammo and cancer has returned...

It is in my lymph nodes under my arm too. She said it is stage 1v and most likely it is through my whole body but microscopic and wants to keep it that way. I had my port put back In today and am getting herceptin And projeta. She said the goal is to get it to stable. She will do 3 cycles of this and if lump above clavical bone has gotten bigger we will do tdm1. She said lymp nodes under my arm with cancer are very deep under my arm so being able to feel his one above clavicale is a good thing.

My neck is really sore where they port in and bruised. I haven't felt any side effects from treatment yet but it seemed SE came on day 3 but maybe I will get lucky and it won't.

Elizabeth I have been taking tamox until lump was found 8/14 and she took me off it and said it wasn't working.

Also, how can one be going from stable disease to NED??
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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
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