how far out?

zschweeb
zschweeb Member Posts: 160
edited June 2014 in Managing Side Effects of Breast Cancer and Its Treatment

dont know if this has been done before but would love to here how successful some of you ladies are so lets hear it

how far out are you from dx?

how far out are you from end of tx?

and now the biggie...how far out from NED?

lets get some success stories out to give us newbies some hope...

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  • Curlylocks
    Curlylocks Member Posts: 1,060
    edited July 2008

    I will be 3 years from diagnosis in October, 2 years out of active treatment and the most important almost 3 years NED!

    I was diagnosed at age 41, IDC, 4 cm tumour, er/pr+, grade III and 3 positive lymph nodes so ladies there is ALOT OF HOPE!!!!

    Michele 

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  • RIV54
    RIV54 Member Posts: 359
    edited July 2008

    I am 16 months from dx, 9 months from tx, and mastectomy was 3-19-07, so that might put me 16 months NED, and counting. Not too shabby.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited July 2008

    Susan - hi there -

    Dx - 2/3/06

    Bilat 3/1/06

    TAC chemo 3/22 - 7/6/06

    Rads 7/27 - 8/30/06   ooph 10/17/06  Started AI's 7/27/06

    I'm not sure when the NED status starts - after mastectomy or after chemo.  I guess I say after chemo, so two years now.

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  • zschweeb
    zschweeb Member Posts: 160
    edited July 2008

    wow thats great to hear i was just diagnosed on 11/27/07 so its great to hear how far out some have come what about you longtimers out there come on impress us

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  • nowheregirl
    nowheregirl Member Posts: 894
    edited July 2008

    I just had my 3rd cancer-versary on 7th July. DX'd on that day of 2005 with stage IIb grade 1 IDC with one node positive, did neoadjuvant chemo (12 weekly Taxol followed by 4 EC every four weeks), had a lumpectomy in March of 2006, did yet another 12 weekly Taxol followed by 30 x rads. Been on Tamoxifen and Lupron shot since February of 2006. And now I'm just as fine as I was before cancer!

    xo

    Fumi

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  • spar2
    spar2 Member Posts: 6,827
    edited July 2008

    I am over 4 years out and still taking arimidex

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  • 1penny
    1penny Member Posts: 87
    edited July 2008

    Ok! sorry to be a real noob .... but can you please explain all the abreviations?

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  • Curlylocks
    Curlylocks Member Posts: 1,060
    edited July 2008

    Your not a noob....LOL.

    Hope this helps with the abbrevations:

    AI's are hormonal drugs for women with estrogen/progestrone positive bc (there bc was fueled by the estrogen in their body)

    IDC - most common type of breast cancer, invasive ductual carnicoma (cancer started in the ducts of the breast and can spread to the lymph nodes or other organs)

    NED (No Evidence of Disease (or commonly known as remission) - its everyone's friend here!

    Dx - diagnosed

    TAC - type of chemo

    ooph - oopherectomy - surgical removal of ovaries, had mine removed due to estrogen positive bc

    I hope I have helped out!

    <> Michele
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