UPDATE: INVASIVE LOBULAR CANCER & 'DID YOU OPT OUT OF RADIATION?'

mopar
mopar Member Posts: 1,972 Member
in Breast Cancer #1

To everyone who was so kind to respond to me previous posts, I thought I would update all of you.

I saw my surgeon yesterday for a post op checkup.  Surgery was last week, and the pathology came back with clear borders and no lymph node involvement!  I can't tell you how happy we are.  Now, they will do the oncatype testing on the tumor to check for possible chemotherapy as an option.  My surgeon seems pretty confident that it will be 'low', and not particularly responsive to chemo, as that is the common result for ILC.

So, I will see the oncologist to get those results (hopefully in a couple of weeks).  If we don't need to discuss chemotherapy, I will then see the radiation oncologist to set up a schedule of treatments.  After radiation is complete, I will be given an aromatase inhibitor to use once daily, for 5 years.

So, I still have a little bit ahead of me.  Thank you to everyone for your help.  I am healing well, and grateful to have had such a good pathology report.  Taking one day at a time, and feeling very BLESSED!

(((HUGS))) and Prayers to you all!

Monika

 

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  • CypressCynthia
    CypressCynthia Member Posts: 4,014 Member
    #2
    Thank you for your update

    Thank you for your update Monika.  I often wonder if, in the case of my little sister, it wouldn't have been better to have skipped chemo and just opted for the tamoxifen (she was premenopausal) and radiation.  She was the one who had a local recurrence after chemo and no radiation.  She ended up with radiation anyway.  She is now on femara (an aromatase inhibitor) and has been on it for many years.  With my Stage 4 situation, she is reluctant to stop it and her oncologist agrees. 

    Keep us posted and I am so happy for you!!!!

  • mopar
    mopar Member Posts: 1,972 Member
    #3
    CypressCynthia said:

    Thank you for your update

    Thank you for your update Monika.  I often wonder if, in the case of my little sister, it wouldn't have been better to have skipped chemo and just opted for the tamoxifen (she was premenopausal) and radiation.  She was the one who had a local recurrence after chemo and no radiation.  She ended up with radiation anyway.  She is now on femara (an aromatase inhibitor) and has been on it for many years.  With my Stage 4 situation, she is reluctant to stop it and her oncologist agrees. 

    Keep us posted and I am so happy for you!!!!

    HUGS TO YOU AND SIS, CYNTHIA

    So sorry to hear both of you are going through so much.  Making these decisions is not easy, is it?  Doctors really don't even have all of the answers, and it always comes down to doing the best you can with the info you have.  Are you on Tamoxifen/inhibitor as well?  I do have concerns about the side affects.  I am postmenopausal, so the so-called 'hot flashes' would be familiar to me.  But I've read about other problems that can occur with those meds.  But whatever I must do, I will do.

    Sending many prayers to you and your sister, for healing and better days ahead.  Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my post.

    Monika

    Kiss

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