***What was your date of dx, stage, treatment and current status...???***

[SherryS]

Routine mammogram May 4/05 after "clean" manual check-up w/pcp -- detected "suspicious mass" - calcifications.
Core biopsy done June - confirmed bc June 15/05
Lumpetctomy & SNB - late June '05 - tumour 2 cms., 1 node of 7 affected
Axillary Dissection July '05 - no futher node involvement (27 nodes taken in total)
Started chemo late August '05 - 4 AC/ 4 Taxol - completed end of January '06
30 rads - finished early April '06
Started 1 year of herceptin (every 3 weeks) end of April '06

See surgeon May 31st for follow up and will have 1st mammogram since surgery scheduled.

Hangin in there and ready to keep on fighting!

[Sherryg683]

Found lump myself, on December 1, 2005, it was 1.5cm. I was 2 months late for my yearly mammogram. Lumpectomy on Dec 22. Was diagnosed Stage IV with 13+ positive lymph nodes and 2 small mets to my lungs. There was a chance that I also had 2 small liver mets but they have never lit up postive on the PET scans that I have taken, so they are presumed non cancerous..cannot biopsy because of location. Was on Taxototere, Xeloda and Herceptin. Was given the news that I was NED on April 7. Will be on Herceptin indefinately, doing scans every 3 to 6 months and keeping a watch on the liver spots. Have a 7 year old daughter and 17 year old son..I am 44. sherryg683