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DCIS - Chemo
Has anyone ever heard that chemo is not effective for cancer cells that are DCIS?
Someone mentioned this to me recently and I had never heard of such a thing.
I know that people with DCIS do not usually undergo chemo.
Consider this situation: A person has a lumpectomy due to invasive DCIS stage II bc. Chemo is given post-surgery. Will chemo destroy cancer cells in other possible areas of DCIS within the same breast or the other breast?
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*** MARYANNE *** aka HARRIECANARIE
1993: right side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads
1999: left side DCIS, lumpectomy, rads, tamoxifen
2006:
BRCA 2 positive
Stage I, invasive DCIS (6mm x 5mm)
Grade: intermediate
sentinal node biopsy: neg
HER2/neu amplified 4.7
ER+/PR+
TOPO II neg
Oncotype dx 20
Bilat mastectomy with DIEP flap reconstruction
oophorectomy
2007:
6 cycles TCH (taxotere, carboplatin, herceptin)
finished 1 yr herceptin 05/07
Arimidex, stopped after almost 1 yr
Femara
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