Hi all recently diagnosed in June with her 2 neg ER positive, stage 3 currently having chemo first with ec 4 cycles and pacitaxil 4 cycles. Just wondering if anyone is having or had similar treatment and was there any response to shrinkage in the tumour before surgery?
wish you all well x
Hi there , I’m sorry you have found yourself here but you are very welcome , it’s a supportive group :)
You’ll be able to read my ( long ) story by clicking on my name but I had the same type and stage of cancer as you and exactly the same treatment . I had a really good response to chemo and after surgery they found that the chemo had killed more than 90% of the cancer ! It had all gone from my lymph nodes and there was about 9% left in my breast
Wishing you well with your treatment, feel free to ask any other questions
xx
welcome to the forum, please join us in RE: august starters 2023 there are people going through treatment now and starting who can help answer questions, know a couple of woman doing chemo first and having good response. hugs
Thankyou and wish you well great to hear you had such a great response from chemo
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