Triple Negative Breast Cancer
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I am a
healthy (I thought) 69 year old woman and I feel as if I could live forever… I enjoy
my life, am reasonably fit and very active – I swim, go on really pleasant
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Hi @RosaPink So sorry you have to be on this forum but welcome and as others have said it is full of warm people who just get what you are going through.
I was also diagnosed grade 3 TNBC last year ( although after saying that I was actually found hormone positive by just 1 % so still classified as Triple Negative )
It isn't an easy question you ask as to whether you have chemo or not. ( It is a question bought up a fair bit on this forum though) But really only you can answer that question guided by your medical teams expertise and your own beliefs and whether you have any other ongoing health issues. There is no right or wrong answer but I guess ultimately we have to live with the decisions we make and although we don't like to think of recurrence that little sucker is always there in the periphery.
I was not given the option really as they said grade 3 TNBC was an automatic chemo for me. Everyone is different but because of the higher risk of recurrence I was prepared to throw the kitchen sink at it with no regrets and to be honest if I was given the choice it would have worried me about whether any stray cells would have escaped. ( I think I would have had nightmares about What If !! )
Good luck with your decision and if you have any questions or just need to vent we are all here. Big hugs xo
I was also diagnosed grade 3 TNBC last year ( although after saying that I was actually found hormone positive by just 1 % so still classified as Triple Negative )
It isn't an easy question you ask as to whether you have chemo or not. ( It is a question bought up a fair bit on this forum though) But really only you can answer that question guided by your medical teams expertise and your own beliefs and whether you have any other ongoing health issues. There is no right or wrong answer but I guess ultimately we have to live with the decisions we make and although we don't like to think of recurrence that little sucker is always there in the periphery.
I was not given the option really as they said grade 3 TNBC was an automatic chemo for me. Everyone is different but because of the higher risk of recurrence I was prepared to throw the kitchen sink at it with no regrets and to be honest if I was given the choice it would have worried me about whether any stray cells would have escaped. ( I think I would have had nightmares about What If !! )
Good luck with your decision and if you have any questions or just need to vent we are all here. Big hugs xo