A friend just got a diagnosis of breast cancer and had her lumpectomy on Wednesday.
Today, five days later, she's a breast cancer survivor and probably on her way to a full recovery.
Today, five days later, she's a breast cancer survivor and probably on her way to a full recovery.
Good news: her lymph nodes (those that drain the breast, called sentinel nodes) were not involved!
The margins around the removed tumor looked good too. Yay!
With those two factors and with God's help, I think she has this beat.
The bad news is that the cells of her tumor test as triple negative: no estrogen receptors, no progesterone receptors, and no overproduction of the Her2 oncogene.
Cells of this type are very fast-growing, but chemotherapy really knocks them out.
I've met women who have 20-30 years survival after Triple N.
Note: you make friends with a lot of cancer survivors after a breast cancer diagnosis.
The book I find helpful:
The Breast Cancer Survival Manual, 5th ed., by John Link, MD (NY: Holt, 2012).
My chemotherapy treatments...
ReplyDeleteI'm going back to share my experience now because the emotional pain and suffering I had from breast cancer has subsided. I still cry when I share my story, but I no longer feel like a victim of cancer.
In June 2005, I started chemotherapy. My oncologist recommended I start chemo first then have surgery. I had to undergo 8 rounds of chemo, once every two weeks. It was called dose-dense. I was on three rounds of AC, three rounds of Taxotere, then the rest on Taxol. I can still remember it like it was just yesterday. The first round of chemo wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I wasn't that sick. I was thinking I can do this. Chemo was not that bad. Boy, was I wrong. The second round hit me hard. My red blood cells were low so I was given a shot of Procrit. I normally got sick on the third day. I would go in for treatment on a Thursday, get the Procrit shot on Friday (if necessary), and then be sick in bed for 3-5 days. In The next round, I didn't get the Procrit shot. I still feel sick, but not as sick as the last round. When I got really sick on my next round after getting the Procrit shot, I realized the shot was making me feel worse. So I keep searching for natural herbs then I came across Dr Itua herbal center who cure disease like Herpes,Cancer,Men & Women Infertility,Love Spell,Body Pain,Parkinson,ALS,MS,Diabetes,Hepatitis,COPD Dr Itua was the only solution to my condition so I purchase his herbal medicine and I finished the treatment complete as I was instructed without surgeon I got cured, I asked him what will I do to give my thanks then he ask me to testify about his work so reason for me dropping this on here to help someone out there with health challenge, Thank God! Dr Itua was a lot better.
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