Chemo. To be or not to be
Age 55. IDC grade 3. ER+. HER2- . Lymph node +. Just had mastectomy so far (a week ago)
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55 is young, I am almost that age now, so they will do a thing called staging where a team of surgeon, oncologist, radiologists all get the test results including bone scans and CT scans and the pathology and figure out exactly what they are dealing with. They will then form a plan of further treatment which will probably involve chemo as with a node involvement it means those tiny cancer cells could have escaped into your lymph system or bloodstream and be looking to set up shop somewhere else in your body in a future date. They are too tiny to detect but Chemo will kill those cells.
55 is young, I am almost that age now, so they will do a thing called staging where a team of surgeon, oncologist, radiologists all get the test results including bone scans and CT scans and the pathology and figure out exactly what they are dealing with. They will then form a plan of further treatment which will probably involve chemo as with a node involvement it means those tiny cancer cells could have escaped into your lymph system or bloodstream and be looking to set up shop somewhere else in your body in a future date. They are too tiny to detect but Chemo will kill those cells.