triple negative
Hello to all you lovely ladies who have also been affected by a diagnosis of breast cancer. I am 57yo and had a routine mammogram recently which showed an area in one breast that looked abnormal. I c...
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Hi @greyhound - I love your pen name! I am more of a Labrador.
I am 63 and was 62 on diagnosis ( September 2020).
I didn’t have triple negative but had ER positive lobular cancer.Most breast cancer is ductal.
I understand post menopausal women are more likely to have ER positive cancer and younger women more likely to have triple negative but that’s just a generality - everyone is individual and will get an individual treatment plan.For example I didn’t need chemo but that seems universally prescribed for triple negative.I did have radiotherapy which they do not often do with a mastectomy but I was recommended it due to the size of my tumour.
My treatment was in the private system and my surgery ( mastectomy) was 5 weeks from when I first saw my breast cancer surgeon ( I had received my diagnosis from my GP a few days earlier.)
They had to do lots of scans and tests on me first to see what the treatment plan should be and I lost a week with a cold and had to get a Covid 19 test etc.
The anxiety of waiting for all the various results is very stressful and even though my surgeon said my cancer was extremely slow growing and had been growing there for a while I just wanted it OUT!
We do have world class Drs in both the public and private systems in Australia but that doesn’t mean everyone always gets a 100 percent grade A experience and sometimes you have to advocate for yourself.
Take care.
I am 63 and was 62 on diagnosis ( September 2020).
I didn’t have triple negative but had ER positive lobular cancer.Most breast cancer is ductal.
I understand post menopausal women are more likely to have ER positive cancer and younger women more likely to have triple negative but that’s just a generality - everyone is individual and will get an individual treatment plan.For example I didn’t need chemo but that seems universally prescribed for triple negative.I did have radiotherapy which they do not often do with a mastectomy but I was recommended it due to the size of my tumour.
My treatment was in the private system and my surgery ( mastectomy) was 5 weeks from when I first saw my breast cancer surgeon ( I had received my diagnosis from my GP a few days earlier.)
They had to do lots of scans and tests on me first to see what the treatment plan should be and I lost a week with a cold and had to get a Covid 19 test etc.
The anxiety of waiting for all the various results is very stressful and even though my surgeon said my cancer was extremely slow growing and had been growing there for a while I just wanted it OUT!
We do have world class Drs in both the public and private systems in Australia but that doesn’t mean everyone always gets a 100 percent grade A experience and sometimes you have to advocate for yourself.
Take care.