No response to chemo

Hopefully my words will provide some hope. I was told my chemo not worked so they bought surgery forward. Scans showed chemo not effective but on removing tumour a week later it had shrunk by a 1/3. My Lymph nodes hadn’t responded at all though. After surgery I had radiation and oral chemo for 6 months and much to my oncologist surprise I am ned for now. So carry on fighting there is hope. Also look into changing diet , omega 3 research. 

Hello DC6 thank you for your response it certainly gives a different perspective on this .  So pleased that you are now cancer free Do you mind if I ask you a couple of questions .   What type of chemo did you have initially and for how long ? I have done 3 cycles of EC and was due to start 12 weeks of PC on 21st December . Unfortunately I was admitted as an emergency to hospital with an unrelated condition which saw me in hospital all over Xmas and I have just had an operation to sort it out .  So this news was devastating for me as the treatments was already delayed .  Last chemo 7th December .   What stage and grade was your tumour and do you know how big it was ?    Please  don’t feel you have to answer . Xxx

My tumour was 8.5 and 3 lymph nodes I was grade 3 stage 3 

I did 4 ec and 6 pax/carbo so 5 months of iv chemo. 
feel free to ask any questions. I don’t mind. 
I also add I feel really well now even though had a lot of treatment 

Thanks same grade and stage as me , tumour is 11.5 but they don’t think lymph nodes involved Did you have a check on the response  after the EC ?   I suspect they may want to try the pax/carbo or maybe they will do surgery . 
I also feel rubbish and I don’t know if this is the cancer or still revive from operation which was only a week ago. 

really great to hear you feel so well.   Did you have a full mastectomy? Xxx

I had a ct after ec and half way through pax/carbo 

I chose to have a bilateral mastectomies lucky i Did as the other breast had dcis undiscovered from the scans 

they said my other breast not involved but were you offered the choice to have a double mastectomy, maybe I should consider this ? Did you have reconstruction or will you have ? Is this even offered ? Thankyou for sharing xxx

They won’t take both off without a psychiatrist saying you have good rationale. 
in one way having a breast is safer because reaccurrance are monitored by mammograms I can’t have follow ups as have no breasts. They did offer me reconstruction but I declined so any reaccurrance isn’t hidden. This is a personal choice and it may feel different to you. It is very hard as so many decisions to take. 

I didn’t respond either way to 4 x EC and was told that I haven’t really responded to pac/ carbo. Now terrified. Surgery looming…

What are you doing with diet Dc6? Did you have any response to chemo?

They told me scans showed no response to chemo but o. Surgery my breast tumour had shrunk by over a 1/3 no response on lymph nodes. 
I changed to being a vegetarian with no use of soy oil and I take omega 3 supplement