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If you have just been diagnosed here are a few places to start from the main Breastcancer.org site: Understanding Your Pathology Report Stages of Breast Cancer and What They Mean HER2 Status and How it Affects Treatment Hormone Receptor Status and What It Means for Treatment Planning Your Treatment Why So Many Types of…
The PREDICT "survival calculator", based in the UK, has updated their algorithm as of Spring 2024 to include additional data inputs such as progesterone receptor status, smoker status, metastases status, plus an option for patients who accept or decline radiation. This tool may be helpful to those that're newly diagnosed…
Breast Cancer Biomarkers Aug 25, 2023 Debu Tripathy, MD, explains what breast cancer biomarkers are and how doctors use them to make treatment decisions. Biomarkers are molecules that help doctors distinguish breast cancer cells from healthy cells. In general, there are three broad categories of breast cancer biomarkers:…
VIRTUAL MEETUPS for people in treatment for breast cancer! Register here and you'll receive a zoom confirmation with all the information! Tuesdays at 1:00 PM EST and Thursdays at 6:00 PM EST
I am new to this forum and want to share my experience so far at this very early stage. I went in for surgery in mid-April for a lumpectomy / excisional biopsy) of what was previously diagnosed per biopsy as ADH (atypical ductal hyperplasia) which is a benign condition. Pathology of removed tumor upgraded me to IDC ( ER+/…
says Invasive carcinoma, Ductal with mucinous features, Low grade, 1 of 3, Mitotic rate: low, Lymph-vascular invasion: not identified, DCIS absent, Additional findings: not identified. Pending still; ER/PR, HER2, Ki-67. My PCP will get the results on Monday 5/11/26 (it’s Saturday). PCP is Multicare in Olympia WA. As of…
Hi, I was diagnosed last month and have my surgery consult tomorrow. Over the past few days, I've doing a podcast deep dive and am greatly appreciative for the podcasts that I listed to from this website. What a great wealth of information! I'm happy to join your community here! (Well, not happy to have cancer but happy to…
Hello, I am really scared of receiving my recent biopsy of early stage breast cancer today and came across this site and about to turn 54 and not what I really wanted to hear. I'm just reaching out for a community who are traveling with cancer. They are not sure where it has spread or if it is contained with the 15m size…
I recently found out my diagnosis early this month and has been taking it hard on myself for the past few weeks. My scheduled appointment with my Surgeon/Oncologist is on May 2nd. I'm 39yo, married with 3 kids (11, 8, 5). Been taking Tamoxifen 20mg every night at 8pm since April 11th and with just a few days in i got a…
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