Stage 2/ grade 2 - is chemo required?

Regarding your fear of the port placement, I can share the following. Prior to being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, I had been on blood thinners (warfarin), for almost twenty years. This requires very frequent blood tests to check my clotting levels and had resulted in extremely scarred veins from the repeated blood tests. I had my port put in on the morning of my first AC chemo session using a local anaesthetic. I still have my port...this September will be 7 years and it is frequently used for the contrast in scans (it is a Power Port-a-cath and can take the pressure that the contrast is injected in). I have other significant health conditions which result in me being in hospital on a fairly regular basis. There it is used for IV fluids as well as blood tests. None of the regular pathology clinics where bloods are taken have staff who are 'port certified' and there they have to play 'hunt the vein'. Even in hospital, not all registered nurses are port certified, but they can be located if I put my foot down and insist on my port being used. I have mine flushed and Heparin locked every 6-8 weeks to keep it viable. It has never become infected, flipped, kinked or misbehaved in any way and it will remain there as long as it continues that way. When and if it causes problems, it will be replaced by another on the other side of my chest. As far as pain when being accessed is concerned, I get more twitchy when having a finger prick to check for blood sugar levels.