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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Sorry to hear your news @greyhound. I have been having treatment at Peter Mac for over 6 years now and I mostly love the place. Some things you have to wait far too long for (like blood collection) but staff are always so apologetic. There are great breast oncologists at Peter Mac. I see Sherene Loi and she is fantastic but any of the others are good too. They all participate in research which means they are across all of the latest treatments and your case is discussed and treatment decided as a group. I am not triple negative and about 6 years ago I was glad about that. However, they have been focussing on a lot of new treatments for triple negative breast cancer as there was a real dirth. I now think there are more options to try if you are triple negative!! I am currently at the end of all of the oral treatments, have been unsuccessfully mucking around with a trial drug and so will now need to proceed with my first IV chemo. I feel a bit scared as this is the first time since diagnosis that I have had to inch closer to the expected and dismal prognosis. Ohh and do keep ringing if you are waiting for an appointment. I have found it only helps and they won't hold it against you as they understand how stressed you must be. Also, it depends on what treatment they will be doing as to how long they will make you wait. Some treatments they may want your mastectomy to be fully healed (but you will be getting close to that stage anyhow by now). Good luck Lisa