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Please HELP!! Hi everyone, i am 45 years old and i have recently been diagnosed with; ER positive Ki-67 positive Tumour size 12mm Toumour has been surgically removed 6 weeks ago with clear marg...
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Hi Tri ,
I'm newly diagnosed and in a similar situation to you - curious to know 10 months down the track which path you decided on?
HiTeta I'm sorry for your diagnosis- it is a real downer. Hope your doing ok.
My diagnosis was 3 years ago and I went onto the option of chemo first, surgery (lumpectomy) radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy and hormone therapy. There’s many variations in breast cancer type and we each have our own health and age or stage that our doctors consider and which we think about, but I think the plan I followed is fairly common for those of us who are in the Triple Positive breast cancer type.
I don’t have regrets about my treatment choices, so far, 18 months after completing the intravenous treatments surgery and all I am still “no evidence of disease”. A choice I could have made differently was to have a mastectomy but I took the lower impact surgical option.
The treatment plan took about 15 months from start to finish and I still on hormone therapy (oestrogen blockers) for another 7 years.
The treatment is not a cake walk but it was manageable, I had a few different side effects each time but I do feel I have done what I can to be here. I am altered by having had treatment and still having treatment but I feel grateful to have had the benefit of being treated. I am now very actively engaged in work, travel, community, sports I enjoyed and life again. I understood from the medical advice that the statistics from trials were pretty solid and survivorship for HER2+ patients has been turned around by the treatment with better outcomes over the last decade.
I am curious but ran out of time to have genomic or genetic testing - I was about to start chemo when I asked my oncologist and she more or less indicated that it was something I could do but with my breast cancer type (Triple Positive) it was unlikely to result in her varying her recommended treatment plan.
I hope this helps. If you’re Triple Positive it’s good to know it’s less common than hormone positive, so friends of mine who’d been treated for Oestrogen or Progesterone positive breast cancer were puzzled by the treatment plan I had.
Go gentlyTeta and sending positive energy your way.