5 year survivors, post your screen name here!
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Congratulations on your new granddaughter c2will! So glad your hubby is NED too:)
Big hugs
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Congrats c2will. My understanding is the 10 years will be for those that are high rise for recurrence. No surprise you got to stop. (I know I won't be so lucky. I'm sure my MO will want me to continue. She says I'm high risk).
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1986 2cm+ ER+/PR+ mastectomy no further treatment -still here 29 years later but with 40 year old dau with HER2+ diag 2013.
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Congrats dolittle on 29 years and counting!!!! So sorry to hear about your daughter's diagnosis. Hope she is doing as well as you. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Congrats dolittle! FYI I too was HER2+. I'm coming up on 5 years NED myself. 49 at diagnosis. Things are different for HER2+ than they were 29 years ago, even 5 years ago. Herceptin is a real life saver. Now they have Perjeta too which I didn't get because it wasn't approved yet for early stage. Hope your daughters journey is as easy as mine was.
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Somehow I didn't notice this thread before. I hit my 5 year cancer free mark on March 31, 2015. Very happy to make this milestone and congrats to those who have reached it and I hope everyone can make it to this mark.
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Yay Cowgal!
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Congratulations Cowgal:)
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Congrats Cowgal!!!
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diagnosed w/ triple negative bc in 1990 in my 30's, so 25 yrs for that, at the time they gave me a poor prognosis.Recently had another primary this time HER2+, even smaller than that last time, no nodal involvement, 7mm, and I just finished 12 wks of taxol and herceptin, now doing herceptin alone every three weeks for the next 9 mo
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Hello, community. I am so blessed. I remember praying to see my two daughters graduate from high school. My oldest graduated from college in '12, and my youngest will graduate from UMass in two weeks.
Medicine is wonderful; I am a lucky woman.
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Congratulations to all of my breast cancer sisters who are 5 plus years survivors. I celebrated 7 years in April and like Eileeng I prayed that I would survive to see my oldest grandchild graduate from high school. I have now seen my 2 oldest grandchildren graduate from college ! I am blessed . Here's to many more years for all of us ~0 -
still here !
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Yayy! JFV, congratulations:)
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JFV you go girl!
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Awesome, JFV!
Today I 'passed' my yearly oncology checkup; so I am officially still in the clear, happy and grateful, 8 years out!
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Hi ruthbru
Congradulations on your 8th year cancerfree. Thanks a lot for posting and wish you many many years NED.
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Congrats Ruthbru - That's fabulous news :-)
JFV, Cowgal, and Dolittle - Thanks for sharing your good news with the community.
Sending hugs to you all
xoxo
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Congrats Ruth!
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way to go Ruthbru!!!
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Congratulations Ruthbru, Cowgal and JFV on reaching your milestones. Have been feeling fearful about the future again but reading these stories gives me hope
heres to many more years of N.E.D. for us all.0 -
I'm marking my seventh year post-diagnosis and treatment for stage I HER-2 positive breast cancer. I was part of the APT trial at Dana-Farber, which evaluated the efficacy of using taxol and herceptin to treat small, node-negative HER-2 positive BC. I had a lumpectomy, 12 sessions of TH, 33 rounds of radiation, and finished the year of Herceptin. I took letrozole for five years. Excellent check-ups since. Those long days of fatigue and anxiety are a thing of the past. I do have peripheral neuropathy from the taxol, but nothing's perfect!
Unfortuately, I was diagnosed in March with a rare form of Hodgkins lymphoma, totally unrelated to the breast cancer. I'm getting excellent care at Dana-Farber, and am reassured that the prognosis for this form of lymphoma is excellent. The diagnosis was due to an incidental finding--during a routine mammogram, the radiologist noted an enlarged lymph node. I am eternally grateful to a very fussy, very meticulous radiologist. And reminded how important routine follow-up can be.
Sending you all best wishes for many happy and healthy years!
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Congratulations, ladies!
kayb, stay away from buses!!!
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kayb,
Thanks for the kind words.
That five-year anniversary is huge!
And yes, stay away from buses.
--Ann
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wonderful news you go girl
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kayb....yay you!!!!!!!
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