Triple Positive

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Just wondering if anyone out there is triple positive. I'm triple positive and HER2 positive. I was diagnosed in January, have had surgery now currently doing chemo. I have read various articles on triple positive being an aggressive cancer and with HER2 Positive a high reoccurrence rate. My pathology reports state ER positive 90% which seems quite high and grade 3 Stage 1. When I ask my oncologist about prognosis and reoccurance rate she tends to brush it off. Trying not to be anxious with this information BUT......
Just wondering if anyone out there is triple positive. I'm triple positive and HER2 positive. I was diagnosed in January, have had surgery now currently doing chemo. I have read various articles on triple positive being an aggressive cancer and with HER2 Positive a high reoccurrence rate. My pathology reports state ER positive 90% which seems quite high and grade 3 Stage 1. When I ask my oncologist about prognosis and reoccurance rate she tends to brush it off. Trying not to be anxious with this information BUT......
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I feel good and I’m tolerating chemo! I’m trying not to look at the % and go with I’m feeling good!
good luck with your treatment
best of luck with it all 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I’ve since had two rounds neoadjuvant chemo (AC and taxcel ) plus herceptin (immunotherapy) before lumpectomy surgery in jan . No cancer in 5 lymph nodes .tumour totally removed at surgery . Had radiation post surgery and am now on femara tablets. Will have bone infusion every 6 months as well .
I thought I was only having more herceptin infusions post surgery/radiation/hormone tablets BUT
Then my oncologist proposed further chemo . It sounds as though you had complete tumour regression at surgery ?
‘Turns out post chemo and surgery your pathology results important . Mine showed my tumour had not completely regressed , was still discernible to pathologist so my oncologist proposed T-DMI (kadcycla) chemo every 3 weeks for a further 14 sessions. This used to be a treatment for metastatic breast cancer only but recent KATHERINE clinical trial found it gave early breast cancer patients with HER2 + extra protection against recurrences, and better survival rates in cases without total regression when compared to,just herceptin.infusions . It’ went up April 2021 on EVIQ - noted a acceptable protocol for early breast cancer HER2+ cases without total tumour regression.
TDMI has potential,side effects and they are being monitored but to be honest I’ve found it’s easier to tolerate that other two,types of chemo so,far .
so I’m hopeful the HER2+ has been targeted well with the chemo/ immunotherapy options and it does play on my mind a bit as I’m really only 12 months since diagnosis. And now 6 months since surgery in particular . Everything crossed !
I am still on AI's, but was told I am more likely to get a recurrence because of my HER2 + diagnosis, and I have had all the treatment for that tumor! We just have to look ahead and hope all our treatment has done its job.
mine reads ER positive
PgR positive (progesterone)
HER positive