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Is it possible to be cured?
I went to see my oncologist for my regular visit....up until this visit I had been seeing him every three months but this visit was after 6 months. He and another doctor sat with me for an hour explaining to me that I would not have to go back to the cancer clinic again. My GP would now arrange my mammograms and regular blood work but I would not need chest x-rays, etc. again. Having an aggressive disease they believed that if it was going to reoccur it would have by now and that they considered my risk of breast cancer to be that of any other person. I asked all sorts of questions the first being that I have heard of others having recurrences 12 and more years after diagnosis. They said that these were less aggressive cancers which grew more slowly. I am now asking all of you. Is this possible, is this true? I have been so happy since this discussion but.... Wouldn't it be wonderful ladies if we actually could consider ourselves disease free after 7-8 years of NED.
Cathy
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Cathy
Diagnosed Oct. 2004 3 cm ductal, lumpectomy Nov. 2004
Diagnosed Jan. 2005 tumor in supraclavicular node
Stage 3c, Grade 3, ER/PR+, Her2++
4 AC, 4 Taxol, Radiation, Arimidex, Actonel
Herceptin for 9 months until Muga dropped and heart enlarged
Restarting herceptin weekly after 4 months off
Stopped herceptin after four weekly treatments....score dropped to 41
Finished 6 years Arimidex
May 2015 diagnosed with ovarian cancer
Stage 1C
started 6 treatments of carboplatin/taxol
Genetic testing show BRCA1 VUS
Nice! My hair came back really curly. Hope it lasts lol. Well it didn't but I liked it so I'm now a perm lady
29 March 2018 Lung biopsy following chest CT showing tumours in pleura of left lung, waiting for results to the question bc or ovarian
April 20, 2018 BC mets confirmed, ER/PR+ now Her2-
Questions about the possibility of ovarian spread and mets to bones so will be tested and monitored for these.
To begin new drug Palbociclib (Ibrance) along with Letrozole May, 2018.
Genetic testing of ovarian tumour and this new lung met will take months.
To see geneticist to be retested for BRCA this week....still BRCA VUS
CA125 has declined from 359 to 12 as of Aug.23/18
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