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Low-Dose Tamox Reduces Recur & Invasive Risk After Non-Invasive
Low-Dose Tamoxifen May Be an Option to Reduce Risk of Recurrence, Invasive Disease After Non-Invasive Breast Cancer December 18, 2018 A low dose of tamoxifen after surgery reduced the risk of recurrence, as well as the risk of new invasive disease, in women diagnosed with hormone-receptor-positive breast intraepithelial…
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triple positive, node negative, and microinvasive--now what?
Hi. I posted before when I was not sure if I had microinvasion and now everything is confirmed. I wondered if anyone is +++ and miccroinvasive out there. I think that my MO will not recommend further treatment beyond the mastectomy but I wonder if anyone else has been through this. I feel like the recent articles I've read…
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From HIGH DCIS to 7MM invasive - HER2 + need advice chemo or not to chemo
hi there, I am new to this forum and currently going through breast cancer treatment right now. So far, I have had a skin-sparing mastectomy DIEP to the right breast on the 23rd October last year. My results show they found 7mm invasive tissue, that my sentinel lymph node was clear and I am Her2 positive… I am in that grey…
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Repeated Ki67 and result is shocking
my first ki-67 is + in 35% of the cells I had to change hospital because my first hospital refused to give treatment and suggested just surveillance The second hospital asked to repeat the test on all the tissue and all the results were pretty similar except for ki-67 Second test Ki-67 is + in 90% of the cells I am so…
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Hgb A1C showing as 6.6
hi Team, I am not having diabetics before starting chemotherapy now I am taxol chemotherapy drug today my Hgb A1C showing as 6.6 I am but worried any one has any such experience
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Micro-invasive DCIS that is her2+++
By clinical definition a true microinvasion is "IDC(Invasive Ductal Carcinoma) that is 1mm or less in its greatest dimension". As requested a separate forum index for those of us who had true Micro-Invasive DCIS that was her2+++. Yes, we are a rare bunch but lately there have been a few more of us that joined BC.org and…
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Triple Positive HER2 Positive
I was diagnosed with triple positive HER2 +, DCIS some invasive. I'm planning on double mastectomy. I'm 45.
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After DCIS, About 1 in 5 Invasive BCs Unrelated to Original DCIS
After DCIS, About One in Five Invasive Breast Cancers Unrelated to Original DCIS June 15, 2022 In the years following a DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) diagnosis, about one in five invasive breast cancers that developed were not related to the original DCIS lesion. Read more...
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Lumpectomy vrs Mastectomy
so far it's non invasive dcis, but they won't know for 100% until they go in. If I do a lumpectomy there's radiation in addition to chemo for Her2. Recommendations?
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How soon did you go back to work after surgery?
Brand new member today. I was diagnosed about 4 weeks ago with IDC. They were going to do a lumpectomy but I'm not a candidate for radiation so am going with a single mastectomy. My surgery is tentatively scheduled for Friday Jan 20 going home the next day. I am self employed with a home based Internet sales business so I…
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Anyone had reoccurance aftering opting out of taking tamoxofin?
I was diagnosed April 2015 at age 27 after having an excisional biop, from mammogram and ultrasound doctors were confident it was a benign fibroadneoma, turns out it was not. I had ~2.5cm DCIS tumor and <1.0mm invasive tumors scattered throughout, Stage 1. I had a unilateral mastectomy June 2015. Due to the the small…
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Can biopsies cause cancer to spread?
I just thought this would be a good topic for discussion.