Invasive Metaplastic Carcinoma

Thanks @Sister, @youngdogmum and @kmakm  for the welcome and kind thoughts.

I am more into the <0.1% category, once the actual make-up of the tumour is taken into consideration.  Invasive metaplasia carcinoma with mesenchymal differentiation (30% poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, 70% fibromatosis-like metaplastic carcinoma).

Outlook appears to be mixed, lower than standard odds in the short term, but about par in the longer term.  Sometimes chemo-resistant (but still worth the effort in my opinion, in case it is not), and appears to have a tendency to prefer the blood-path rather than the lymph-path to ‘get around’.  Some studies indicate a propensity for local recurrences rather than metastatic, but some of the newer data does seem to be showing up a higher metastatic incidence.  But the sample sizes are really too small to determine any reliable statistics to work with.

I hadn’t yet directly quizzed the oncologist regarding the TC choice, but it may be the case (from online searches) that this is potentially more effective for the cellular mix they’re dealing with.  One positive - after only the first round, I now have much smoother skin on my face, neck, arms and legs.  Still have the ‘age spots’ but most of the raised scaly bits have smoothed out. There has to be some up-side with what our bodies are going through  :)