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Left breast cancer 15 years ago now cancerous axillary mass - treatment recommendations?
I was treated for left sided breast cancer 15 years ago (mastectomy and 4 courses of cytoxan and taxotere). Now have 2.3 cm axillary mass (cancer: ER+ PR+ HER2- grade 2 invasive ductal carcinoma and moderately high KI-67 score. I live in Chicago area. MD Anderson cannot see me for two months. I am waiting to hear back from…
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Medication for ER positive breast cancer
I was on Arimidex (name brand anastrozole) for 8 years after my last breast cancer diagnosis. Even though I was taking the drug, I still got a new breast cancer - one that is ER+ (last cancer was triple positive). The cancer was tiny (5 mm) and was actually totally removed with the biopsy. I had a mastectomy and the cancer…
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New Cancer - second time
hi, my last breast cancer was in my left breast diagnosed in January 2015. I was diagnosed at my annual check as having a 1cm cancer in my right breast. I get the pathology results tomorrow. I had a partial mastectomy and lymph clearance last time. As well as chemo and radio. They are talking about a lumpectomy. But I want…
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Second time for me
It's good to know this forum exists. Had a lump in my armpit and, after waiting seemingly a long time to get a biopsy, it came back malignant. Same cancer, I think, as the larger tumor that was removed in my mastectomy in 2018. Doctor I spoke to said there is still breast tissue — "axillary tail"— left after mastectomy. I…
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Breast Cancer and hysterectomy
Hi All, Hope all are doing good. I am diagnosed with breast cancer in left breast in Oct last year and Mastectomy was done Nov last year. In 2019 I was first diagnosed with breast cancer right side and mastectomy was done. Both time ER/PR + and Her2-. Onco Type score was very low so no chemo on both time. I was on…
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Second Breast Cancer
Hi everyone, I have begun my second experience with chemotherapy yesterday. I had ER/PR positive breast cancer in 2005, underwent a lumpectomy with lymph dissection as the sentinel node was positive. I began Tamoxifen after chemotherapy and stayed on that regimen for five years. It was not awful, I could function, but the…
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A Third Time?!?
It’s looking very likely that after 10 years total and 4 years after the first recurrence I have a second recurrence. My annual breast MRI found a suspicious spot in my lumpectomy scar tissue. I’ve followed up with a diagnostic mammo and US and its BI-RADS 4 with scattering of calcifications and .6cm mass. There’s a slim…
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Recurrence after mastectomy
I had breast cancer three times. Each time I was told it was unlikely I would ever get breast cancer again. I had two lumpectomies, chemo and radiation on left breast in 2003 (IDC) In December 2018 I was diagnosed with ILC in same breast. Treated with mastectomy. I stayed on AI for 6 months then quit for multiple reasons.…
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Waiting for my biopsy - possibility of third breast cancer
I had my first breast cancer diagnosed 12/2007. I had a lumpectomy and radiation. As part of my follow up, I alternated between mammogram and ultrasound and MRI every six months. All was good until 12/2015 - almost 8 years to the date - when there was a non mass enhancement near the lumpectomy site on my MRI. I had a…
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ER/PR positive and Her2 negative and Ovary removal
Hi all, In 2019 I was diagnosed ER/PR positive and Her2 negative and mastectomy done on right side. No chemo, no radiation I am 45 and this month I was diagnosed with ER/PR positive and Her2 negative on left breast. Dr suggested mastectomy, later they decide Chemo or radiation. I have been hearing more about removing Ovary…
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30 years later.
I had breast cancer in my left breast when I was 27. Last year I was diagnosed again on my right breast at 57. I couldn’t believe it. Now after the expander's didn’t take and then my body rejected the implant as well. This was hell for me.. invading my body 3 times. This time around I felt like cattle. Come in and out no…
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I'm terrified
My cancer started as small, Grade 1, HR+, HER-. Following surgery it went to - very large, invading muscle layer, so not totally resectable, high Ki67 and a positive lymph node. Now I have noticed night sweats and this morning I feel nauseous. Oncologist apt is not til next Monday. I'm not telling my husband about the…
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Difference between recurrence and new primary cancer
How do they tell the difference between a new primary cancer and a recurrence of the old cancer. I had ILC in 2017, treated with lumpectomy and radiation. I stupidly refused antiestrogens because I thought I would be OK. They have now found another tumour in the other breast, but say it's ductal this time. Has anyone else…
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3rd times a charm??
I have not been on this site in while and well here I am playing the waiting game again 3rd time . I had my 5 year check up from the second time I had BC and they found a lump they want to do an US next week. I’m worried and the waiting is the pits. I know it will be a while if it is cancer before I have a plan and that is…
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9 year Survivor DX again
Hey Everyone. Sure don’t like being back here. I had DCIS 9 years, 8 months ago & have just been DX with IDC & DCIS grade 2 ER+,PR+(Low positive, HER2-, in the opposite breast from my prior DCIS. My quandary is…my prior DX was TNBC now it’s positive. Waiting on appt from Oncologist to see where we go from here. But it’s…
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New diagnosis 2 years after first diagnosis
in early 2018, I had a bilateral mastectomy for high grade DCIS in my right breast and had 3 lymph nodes removed (all negative). I had DIEP flap reconstruction at the same time as the BXM. Both the surgical oncologist and the general oncologist said I didn’t need radiation or adjunctive therapies. I was monitored for…
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Recurrence within a few months?
I just finished my last Herceptin/Perjeta infusion 3 weeks ago, marking the end of my active treatment. I completed TCHP in September (just continued the HP part of it to carry out the full year for HER+), and completed radiation in February. I had a bad scan 2 weeks ago, which I thought couldn’t possibly be anything…
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How to tell if it is a new primary or local recurrence?
Ladies, My first diagnosis was in 2019, lumpectomy plus radiation, then hormone therapy without chemo. Now after 2 years 8 months disease free period, there is a 5mm suspicious nodule, I just got biopsy today. I am studying how to handle this one if it turns out bad one again. It is 5x4x5mm on ultrasound, same side as last…
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Are MRIs necessary after mastectomy
Hi, I had a bilateral mastectomy after my 2nd breast cancer (same breast). I understand that even after a mastectomy there is a small chance of a reoccurence (very frightening (, so I am wondering if you get MRI's after your mastectomy?
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Blindsighted, 2nd ER+ Tumor Just 3 Years Into Hormonal Treatment
Hi everyone, long time listener, first time caller. I was diagnosed in 2018 with ER+/PR+ IDC. Went through lumpectomy and radiation, then started on Tamoxifen + Lupron injections. After a year, I was switched to AI + Lupron and have been on that "gold standard" regimen for two years. Imagine my shock when I developed a…
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Second ipsilateral idc sixteen years after first
Hello, I'm back in the club! I had my first bout of breast cancer in 2005 when I was premenopausal so had lumpectomy, rads, Zoladex ( Lupron in US?) and then Tamoxifen. Last November ( I'm now 61) I had an MRI because I had painful ribs and although no mets found a 1.5 demon nodule *was*. So I've now been biopsied and CT'd…
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Radiation after chemo
I had a not common recurrence of breast cancer on the same side that I had my mastectomy. I went through 8 rounds of dose dense chemo and had a lumpectomy and several lymph nodes removed. One lymph node had cancer cells on the outside. I saw a radiation oncologist that wants to do 25 rounds of radiation to make sure there…
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Cant Help Feeling Like I Did Something Wrong
I was diagnosed a week and a half ago with a second primary, which "luckily" is DCIS. My first primary--IDC--was ten years ago. I was told by the breast surgeon who did my lumpectomy in 2011, as well as my current radiologist that it's a new primary rather than a recurrence. I'm not sure how they can tell. Regardless, I…
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How common is a 2nd cancer in other breast?
Just when I was starting to feel good about being 4 yrs and 2 months out of Stage I IDC, I talked to someone last night that said, usually if you have BC in one breast, you get it eventually in the other. This woman had early stage at 47 in right breast and in left breast at 54--does anyone know the statistics on this?