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Re: second primary breast cancer
Like Becky said, Pandora's Box can be a troublesome thing indeed. I hate bore everyone with my story again, but it is a cautionary tale. Basically, I had a chronic cough and I lighted up some lung scans. The next thing, I was having a surgical biopsy which was positive for lung cancer so they removed a lobe of my lung. A few days later, I was told it was all a big mistake and the biopsy was wrong! It was just an old pneumonia.
My point is, scans can "over read" things but once they do, it has to be followed up. And then people can get overly vigilant because they dont want to miss anything.
I think this is part of the argument why routine scans can be as much of a problem as they can be of help.
The other part of my message is to keep the faith because even when things look grim they are not always what they seem, at all.
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Bonnie
Post menopause
May 2007 Core biopsy, Rt breast
ER+, Pr-, HER2 +++, Grade 3
Ki-67: 90%
"suspicious area" left breast
Bilateral mastectomy, (NED on left) May 2007
Sentinel Node Neg
Stage 1, DCIS with microinvasion, 3 mm, mostly removed during the biopsy....
Femara (discontinued 7/07) Resumed 10/07
OncoType score 36 (July 07)
Began THC 7/26/07 (d/c taxol and carboplatin 10/07)
Began Herceptin alone 10/07
Finished Herceptin July /08
D/C Femara 4/10 (joint pain/trigger thumb!)
5/10 mistakenly dx with lung cancer. Middle rt lobe removed!
Aromasin started 5/10
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