Lobular breast cancer just diagnosed
Hello everyone, I'm new to this , I've only found out about my diagnosis one week ago and been going through a lot of testing over the week. I'm waiting on results of MRI on breasts, I had yesterday b...
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Hi Cindi
Well done for reaching out to this forum. I found it a very hard but worthwhile step to take.
I was diagnosed with invasive lobular 1.8 cm and a 2nd 1.1 cm both in my left breast, estrogen and progesterone positive, herceptin negative.
I was in limbo land post biopsy as they weren't convinced of size. Greater than 2cm I was going to have chemo before lumpectomy. I had a second biopsy and contrast MRIs to confirm size etc. Proceeded with lumpectomy and removal of 3 sentinel lymph nodes. My nodes were clear and margins on lumpectomy clear, although there was a second tumour that had gone undetected. 😳 luckily we got them both in one op.
I then had 5 weeks of radiation and am now on tamoxifen for at least 5 years. This starves the cancer cells if any, of estrogen so they can't survive.
Ask lots of questions. Tap into your breadt care nurse. What state are you? I'm in regional Vic but choose a surgeon in Melbourne.
Take care xx
Well done for reaching out to this forum. I found it a very hard but worthwhile step to take.
I was diagnosed with invasive lobular 1.8 cm and a 2nd 1.1 cm both in my left breast, estrogen and progesterone positive, herceptin negative.
I was in limbo land post biopsy as they weren't convinced of size. Greater than 2cm I was going to have chemo before lumpectomy. I had a second biopsy and contrast MRIs to confirm size etc. Proceeded with lumpectomy and removal of 3 sentinel lymph nodes. My nodes were clear and margins on lumpectomy clear, although there was a second tumour that had gone undetected. 😳 luckily we got them both in one op.
I then had 5 weeks of radiation and am now on tamoxifen for at least 5 years. This starves the cancer cells if any, of estrogen so they can't survive.
Ask lots of questions. Tap into your breadt care nurse. What state are you? I'm in regional Vic but choose a surgeon in Melbourne.
Take care xx