thats ok Tink
i thought you were maybe like me with a pos and neg BC.
Hi Lu, as far as can understand from your posts, you have had a previous positive, now negative cancer.
This is my history:
Dx in april 2006, 43 aged.
Pain and swelling at left breast on feb-march 2006, antibiotics for 20 days (!!!), then mammo and biopsy:
IDC 1,3 cm G3, triple positive;
4 chemo neoadiuvant (epirubicina and taxolo)
then surgery (TRAM recon, 23/32 nodes, further 4 chemo, 25 rads, Tamoxifen, 14 Herceptin, stopped due to heart problems.
Screening bone scan in april 2008, one secondary
in my dorsal-lombar spine, operated in july with laminectomy and the insertion of a titanium bridge, the test said it had become triple negative. Stopped Tamoxifen as soon as diagnosed with mets, rads, 6 vinorelbine and 8 xeloda, I’m on Zometa since the operation and going on with it till my next spine MRI in late august.
Best wishes to you all.
Ele.
P.S. I’ve just read your other post in the other thread, now I can understand in what sense you have both positive and negative cancer.
I would only ask you about the histological type of both nodes, and if the second had affected the residual breast or the other one.
I really begin to think that these s**t cells are developing a sort of drug resistance as bacteria.
An tissue test says posive or negative indicating a percentage, that means there are negative cells too; according with my idea, those cells, due to a miriad of factors, survive to rads, do not respond completely to chemo and then, usually at the end of treatments, start reproducing forming a new, negative cancer.
Simple and fascinating, don’t you agree?
My onc said this could be true, somehow, and I wonder about all those women who are struggling with a negativized secondary, treating it as if it were positive.
Not all the people have the opportunity to get an histologic test on their secondaries.
Sorry for straying from the issue, I kiss you.
Ele.