Breast cancer

My thoughts and prayers are with you . Be positive and stay strong  

Thankyou 

Hi I have stage 2b grade 3 invasive ductual breast cancer oestrogen positive and her2 positive, has gone into 2 lymph nodes, my treatment plan is chemo, just had 4th cycle with 2 more to go, surgery, radiotherapy and phesgo injections for a year which started yesterday. The surgeon said I will have a lumpectomy. 

Was you offered lumpectomy or did they say you will have mastectomy.

If you've already had mastectomy, you'll do chemo, radiation therapy, etc. Doctors will throw everything at it to kill the remaining cancer sells in your body. Stage 2 is considered early stage breast cancer and very treatable and curable. I am stage 2 too with one lymph node involved, they removed it but not all margins clear so I'm doing chemo right now. It's not easy at all, but let's do our best to stay positive! Fingers crossed everything goes well! Hug, xx 

Hi I had dcis in 2015, so had lumpectomy then with 3 weeks radiotherapy,  unfortunately for me it's come back in same breast,  so mastectomy was only option for me, I had reconstruction at same time, thought that would be it, but got to have chemo now, an then rest of lymph nodes out, no radiotherapy this time   can,t do it in same place again, hope everything goes well for you

Thankyou hope everything goes OK for you too, my tumour was quite big, they missed it on mammogram an had two ultrasound,  so how an earth they missed it just kept saying it was scarring from.op an radiotherapy I had previously,  so not sure how long I have had this one

I can relate to what you are saying. I was initially told that my tumour was about 15 to 18mm and after the surgery they told me it was almost 5 cm. On top of it all they couldn't achieve clear margins, I had one positive margin. How they failed to see that it was a large tumour I don't know. I also might have had chemo prior to surgery to shrink it which would have given me a better chance to have clear margins. I hope chemo and radiation will do their job, but it's really frustrating not knowing if cancer is completely out or not. Let's hope for the best! xx 

Hi did you have your breast off

Yes, like you I had mastectomy with immediate reconstruction which went OK apart from the positive margin

I thought when they do mastectomy they remove all breast tissue, did you have reconstruction from your back muscles I did, yes that went really well for me, really healed well, how are you finding chemo, are you being sick, that really worries me