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recurrent breast cancer in same place as first time

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  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 CSN Member Posts: 6,583 Member
    #22
    sorry you are going through this
    I'll check back in few days ...

    Denise
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  • susie09
    susie09 CSN Member Posts: 2,930
    #23
    landbc said:

    My Mom's did...
    My Mom's breast cancer was 1st diagnosed in March of 2010--left upper outer quad, STG I, 1.1-cm. I forget the ER/PR/HER2/neu results but do remember that her OncoDX test results was at a very high risk for recurrence. She had a lumpectomy w/ lymph node dissection, XRT, & Famara.

    Almost a year to the date, at the age of 72, her breast came back in the same exact place, only bigger--STG II, 2-cm, same ER/PR/HER2/neu as last year. So this time, she has a simple left mastectomy and just recently started chemo--Taxotere & Cytoxan.


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    I am so sorry landbc.
    I am so sorry landbc. Praying for your Mother.


    HUGS!
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  • linpsu
    linpsu CSN Member Posts: 747
    #24
    My story is very similar to Janelle's. I had DCIS Stage 0 in 2008 - lumpectomy without clear margins then mastectomy (one side) - no lymph nodes involved. No chemo or radiation. It recurred exactly 2 years later at same spot under mastectomy/reconstruction scar. Two doctors assumed (as did I) that it was scar tissue, but turned out to be invasive, aggressive, Stage 3, triple negative cancer. Had chemo - 4 A/C, 4 Taxol, dose-dense, then another mastectomy? removal of implant and more tissue and 14 lymph nodes - 1 positve. Then 32 radiation treatments. I can't take Tamoxifin or anything else, being triple negative. I am doing well and feeling great.
    Let us know what you find, hugs, Linda
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  • landbc
    landbc CSN Member Posts: 10
    #25
    susie09 said:

    I am so sorry landbc.
    I am so sorry landbc. Praying for your Mother.


    HUGS!

    Thanks, Susie!!
    Mom is doing well with her chemo--1st it was Taxotere and Cytoxan. She got 4 of the 6 cycles of it before being switched to Herceptin. I understand that the Herceptin is necessary because of the HER2 being positive. Anywho, she tolerates the chemo treatments very well and her hair is coming back. Only complaints from her--the hair is coming back totally GRAY and the treatments take too long. Prayers that we make it to next summer with the Herceptin every 3 weeks. Not sure if the remaining 2 cycles of Taxotere and Cytoxan will be added in later or not.

    Thanks again!!
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