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Seem to have recovered from the smx, no problems, scar is ok and not painful but the armpit area seems to be a bit swollen amd very achy by night time , is this normal ? Have been exercising and doing light activities but the area is so sensitive, bras irritate it and the pain seems to radiate down my arm at times
Waiting for results of slnb, had smx dcis was 80 x 83 x 80 so very large. What are the treatments usually given for the microinvasion ?
Hi everyone! New here. I am enrolled in the ADEPT clinical trial for women that have breast cancer that is invasive ductal carcinoma stage 1 triple positive. I refuse to do chemo for a small tumor and stage 1 cancer, so my oncologist suggested that I enrolled in this trial. I started on April 1st 2025 with the PHESGO…
i was diagnosed in Aug- 2024 with IDC Grade 3, 3 foci largest 3mm, extremely high grade DCIS of 8cm, HER2 positive score 3, HR negative, ki67: 90%, braca 1 and 2 negative, and i am 30 years old. At first on 28 July 2024 I did an ultrasound in a town hospital and they said it’s normal nothing to mention. Did it because i…
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…
I'm wondering if anyone has had early stage cancer that is low positive ER and HER2+? My ER is only 5%, but my oncologist wants me to do the standard radiation/tamoxifen protocol. I've seen several studies that indicate a low positive ER should be treated as negative, and that hormone therapy doesn't help low positive ER…
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…
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…
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…
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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