Treatment for local recurrence

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kjackie02
kjackie02 Member Posts: 50
edited June 2014 in High Risk of Recurrence or Second Breast Cancer
I posted this in the wrong forum the first time. Hope I got it right now.I had an excisional biopsy on Friday and I'm hoping it is just scar tissue. It is in the original tumor site. If it is a local recurrence what would the treatment be? I know I cant have rads twice.Thanks
Jackie
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  • lastminuteD
    lastminuteD Member Posts: 333
    edited July 2007
    Jackie,

    It depends on what your treatment was with the first go round. I had a .2cm IDC, no node involvement, mastectomy w/reconstruction and put on tamoxifen the first time - 2/06. 3/07 found a different feeling lump in my reconstructed breast near my scar line - turned out to be 3.5cm IDC - surgeon says local recurrence. Had pet scan - came back clear except for the reconstructed breast, had re-excision surgery 4/27 to remove tumor and started chemo 6/1/07. My first cancer was er+/pr+/her2+, recurrence is er-/pr-/her2+ so I am doing 4 Adriamycin/Cytoxan (infusiions every 3 weeks) then 12 weekly Taxol/herceptin infusions, then start 6 1/2 weeks radiation and continue with the herceptin infusions every 3 weeks. Kindof throwing it all at me this time since I'm not showing any mestases at this point.

    You are right you can't have rads twice and I believe they only allow so much of certain drugs per person in their lifetime.

    I'm hoping for you it's just scar tissue but as I'm learning, there are always more treatments to help us.

    Let me know what's up!

    Dawn
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  • kjackie02
    kjackie02 Member Posts: 50
    edited July 2007
    Hi Dawn, my original dx was 8-06 IDC 1.5cm, ER and PR 100% Her2 elevated but neg, clear nodes but not clean margins. Reexcision 8-22-06, 33 rads, hyst/ooph and now on Femara.
    My onc said I should hear something by wednesday (so hard to wait). I'll let you know what happens.
    Jackie
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  • lastminuteD
    lastminuteD Member Posts: 333
    edited July 2007
    Hey Jackie!

    I'll be watching for a response!!

    Have patience - I HATE the waiting game!!

    Dawn
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  • kjackie02
    kjackie02 Member Posts: 50
    edited July 2007
    Hi Dawn, I just got the call from my onc and it is good news. They said that it was scar tissue from rads but there were also some atypical cells that concerened them so they ran some more tests and decided that those cells were also changes from rads. Hope everything works out well for you also. Keep me posted.
    Jackie
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  • lastminuteD
    lastminuteD Member Posts: 333
    edited July 2007
    Awesome news Jackie!! I know you are breathing a HUGE sigh of relief!!!

    Talk to you soon!

    Dawn
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