Scared!
I've just been to get all my testing done (mammogram, ultrasound, fine needle biopsy of lymph node, core biopsies of 2 lumps and a clip mammogram) and the doctor at the clinich told me I have breast c...
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Hi @Jenny004s - I start chemo on Tuesday next week but my cancer was very different. It was an invasive lobular carcinoma, which is incredibly hard to detect and usually very big by the time it rears it's ugly head high enough for someone to find it. It spreads through the breast like spiderwebs and I had 10cms of tumour spread in my left breast and 16cms in the right - and the one in the right was not actually detected at all - even by MRI - they were all shocked when they got the pathology after my surgery. I also had some nodes involved on my left side. So even though all my staging scans were clear and I have no metastasis, given the nodes and the size of the cancer, they've recommended chemo and radiation and then I'll be on hormone therapy as my cancer was highly hormone responsive. Take one step at a time and don't make any decisions about treatment yet. After your surgery, when you get your pathology results, you and your drs will have much more information on which to base any recommendations for treatment. Sending you lots of hugs! xxx