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Old 11-08-2008, 04:59 PM   #1
duga35
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Swollen nodes?

Hi guys! I hope everyone is doing well. I know that I have been somewhat AWOL, but all of you are always in my prayers.

Anyways,I just wanted to say hello and let you know that I'm going in for surgery on Monday to have another mastectomy. My docs and I decided to just take the other breast out since I was at such a high rate of reocurrance.


I do have a question though and wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen.

For about the last 4 weeks I have been having some painful and swollen lymph nodes popping up all over my body. I have them in my stomach, back, arm, armpit, groin, leg, chest, breast and behind my ears.

When I told my onc about this he just about jumped out of his skin and started to examine me. He didn't feel any on the back of my neck, and told me that he doesn't think that the swelling is due to my cancer. He also told me that I was blasted pretty well with chemo, and after only being 4 months out and if its back that quick then that means I was resistant to the chemo, and there is nothing that can be done anyways, so there is no reason for a CT scan right now.
My blood levels were all fine, except for the white cells still being just a wee bit low, which they have been throughout the chemo treatments.
I don't seem like I have a cold, or any other type of illness that could be possibly be causing this, so I'm kind of at a loss. Pretty worried actually.
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Diagnosis and Treatment: DX 12/07/07
Male Diagnosed with DCIS at age 39
Mastectomy on right breast
Tumor Stage pt1b NO MO
DCIS Tumor size 1.5 x 1.x .6cm
Infiltration tumor size .25X.17 cm
Bloom-Richardson Grade 3(score 8)
Nuclear Grade 3 with comedo necrosis
Estrogen+/Progestrone+/HER-2/Neu +++
FISH ratio 4.31
Lymph node removal scheduled 1/07/08
17 nodes tested and all negative 1/08/08
Started Tamoxifin 1/29/08
Oncotype DX score 52 (off the charts, according to my onc!!!)
Starting TCH 3/14/08
BRCA I Positive BRCA II Negative
Finished TC 6/27/08 continue Herceptin
8/1/08 Herceptin stopped due to low Muga score
Mastectomy on left breast 11/10/08
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