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AllyJay
5 years agoMember
Hi there @Mello and welcome to the group which nobody would want to join. I was diagnosed in 2016 with triple positive breast cancer, the same as yours. Mine was Grade 3 (aggressiveness), Stage 3, multifocal (more than one lump) and with node involvement. So call "abnormal geography" on the right side. I had 4 X AC chemo, followed by 12 X Paclitaxel and Herceptin which continued for just short of a year. After the chemo was finished, I had a bilateral mastectomy with full node clearance on the left and sentinel node on the right. The pathology report from both breasts showed no live cancer cells in the left breast and nodes, only the (quote) "empty tumour beds. The right breast showed multiple areas of abnormal cells which have a history of going bad, so I was very pleased that I'd insisted on having both off. I'm now on Letrozole (a hormone suppressant) since 2017, and will stay on it for at least ten years total. I have a number of other health issues which result in frequent CT scans and MRI scans. They all show that I'm still NED. (No evidence of disease). I was 58 at diagnosis. Hang in there...if this old chook could get through to the other side, then so can you too.