There is a graph somewhere on the Internet showing the stages of breast cancer. And a very good section explaining it on the main US website
www.breastcancer.org ;
I am early breast cancer stage 2B
Early breast cancer includes stages 1+2, I understand, then you go onto locally advanced and then metastatic.
So you are still early breast cancer.
I was multi focal ( many tiny cancer foci in the tissues surrounding the tumours) and multi centric (2 main tumours, 2.2 and 3.2 cm in size and 1 DCIS)
I also had one sentinel node positive but all 21 other nodes removed were clear.
This makes me stage 2B
The grade is just the degree of change in the cells and the rate at which they are growing
Everyone with breast cancer has a stage, even a stage 0.
Stage 2 is highly treatable, with very good statistics.
Knowing your stage hasn't changed anything, just keep going the way you were.
