Unhappy News
Unhappy news: The pathology shows active cancer.
DCIS but it had started to become invasive.
This is not an option we were expecting.
I've asked my surgeon to find out the mitotic rate. I want to know if this is the same cancer or if I'm one of those rare, unlucky people for whom radiation and/or chemotherapy have caused a more aggressive mutation.
My doctor is recommending a mastectomy. If it's survived chemo and radiation it's too aggressive to risk it. Sad.
I'm still happy with all of the choices I've made because there was a chance I might have saved the breast.
I'm definitely having the mastectomy.
My only decisions now are one breast or two and reconstruction or not. I'm going to take a bit of time and do a bit of research.
The worst part about this news is that it does not bode well for my long term survival chances.
Of course I'll keep fighting.
Of course I'll keep enjoying life and all the wonderful people in it.
I might beat the odds and I might not.
When you ask your surgeon for a prognosis and she tells you that one of her patients with cancer like yours is still with us after four years (wow...four whole years) it starts to sink in.
Triple negative, basal, high mitotic rate, grade 3, aggressive, invasive and with a high chance of metastasising.
It is what it is.