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

[margaret]

Dx 11/01 at age 38
Lefts side Mastectomy
Stage 3b (9cm by 6cm by 4cm)
16 nodes involved (16 nodes removed)
ER/PR-
HER2+++
Treatment - AC chemo and Taxol and herceptin and continued weekly treatments of herceptin for 1 year.
Radiation 35 rounds

Thankfully I've been NED since end of treatment. Changed my lifestyle significantly - ended a destructive marriage, became single mom, eat mostly organic and vegetarian, do lots of yoga, teach yoga, created supportive, loving relationships, vowed to live each day to the fullest with less stress, enjoy flowers and birds, relax more......
Margaret

[karenann]

Mammo since age 32, had first lump removed while pregnant with my daughter at 36. The lump was benign
This lump did not show up on mammo but was a solid mass on us. The DCIS was not picked up on mamo or us.
DX: Jan '05 at age 49
Lumpectomy
1.3cm IDC w/ High grade DCIS 1mm from chest wall
5 nodes removed all negative
ER+ 95% PR+ 10%
Her2+++
Grade 3
I did dose dense ACx4 and Tx4 and 34 rads. Two weeks after last Taxol, I started a year of Herceptin and I will complete Herceptin in July. Currently on five years of Aromasin.

[jhandley]

Hi
dx April 2001; 2 cm, 1/13 node +; Segmental mast; rads; chemo=taxotere trial (3 A, 3T, 3 CMF);

Reoccurence in same breast in Sep 2005; 4 x 2 cm tumour not picked up by ultrasound/mammo.(extensive fibrocystic disease in breast); Scans showed 1 x 15 mm spot on liver. Tx=taxol/hercetpin x 6 then maintenance herceptin. NED after 3 cycles.

(Note: I think 2nd tumour was there all along but because it wasnt large/didnt show on mammo.possibly it was supppressed by chemo. then eventually started growing again. In hindsight I should have insisted on full masectomy).

Jackie