5 years (with lots of nodes too)!!!

bejuce
bejuce Member Posts: 97
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

Hi ladies,

It is with much happiness that I write this post, having dreamed about it ever since being diagnosed 5 years ago! I found an armpit lump while still breastfeeding my son in July 2008.  I was diagnosed only in February 2009 and by then the cancer had grown to almost my whole breast.  Doctors had dismissed me with the classic "you're too young, you have no risk factors, blah blah blah".  The MRI I had in Feb showed a 10x12 cm area of enhancement with DCIS/IDC.  I had neo-adjuvant chemo (clinical trial, dose-dense AC/Taxotere & Tykerb) for a ER+ (30%)/PR-/HER-2+ tumor, a double mastectomy (by choice), radiation with Xeloda, a year of Herceptin, an experimental vaccine trial, and continue with Tamoxifen.  

I'm doing great and living life to the max.  I've gained weight but exercise as much as I can and even completed a century bike ride around Lake Tahoe.  I'm thinking of doing another one this summer to celebrate getting here.  I started a new job in 2010 and I've already been promoted twice.  Those of you just starting out, there's a lot of hope.  I want to thank all of you who supported me in this wonderful community.  You are all dear to my heart and I pray that one day breast cancer will be a thing of the past.  

Love,

Marcia 

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