Please help me understand my pathology report.

jen_randall

on one page it says pathological staging based on info available to pathologist...primary tumor: pT1c, tumor over 10mm but equal or less than 20 mm in greatest dimension. what does this mean?....in another part of the report it says size of largest metastatic deposit is 7.8 mm....I just had my right breast removed, and 3 of the 14 lmph nodes were involved as well, and the nuclear grade says 3.  and it says i am HER2 postive 3t...can someone please tell me what all this means??....The surgeon said i will be sent to oncologist next and i will have to have chemo. thanks so much in advance if anyone at all can help me out on this.

jen_randall

Thank u so much Kay, i really appreciate the information, I have been so confused, and my family wants to know what it all means and i just couldnt tell them, because i didnt understand it myself. thank u again!

Moderators

Hi Jen,

In addition to the helpful resource Kay provided, the main Breastcancer.org site has a section called Your Diagnosis, which helps you walk through your pathology report piece by piece.

We hope this helps!

--The Mods