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My Dear Sister....
Hello Group. I am a 25 year survivor of second stage breast cancer, diagnosed before they tested for Her2. My only sibling, my younger sister was diagnosed recently and had a lumpectomy two weeks ago. She is strongly Her2 positive, ER -, PR- and had a less than 1cm. lesion. She just found out Tues. that she had two microscopic cells in a node. She is seeing an oncologist on Tuesday for discussion about additional treatment. She knows she will have radiation, with the possibililty of irradiating the axillary area, or having additional surgery to take more nodes. Everyone is impressing upon her the fact that this is an agressive cancer, but her breast surgeon has said that she has a 92% chance of nonrecurrence (higher with Herceptin). Does this sound right? Is Herceptin always given with chemo? Is there a specific order of treatment? How doable is chemo these days? (Mine was an old regimen that isn't given so much now---lasted a year on a three week cycle).
I posted to Caregivers Forum and it was suggested that I might get more responses here. Thanks so much for reading. I am her "filter" for now.....she isn't into digging for info on the computer, so I share encouraging news, or important cautions. I appreciate any responses.
Barb
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