Complete response in Estrogenpositive IDC?

Anna-33

Hello... I know it is more common to get complete respons after neoadjuvant chemo in trippel negativ, but is there anybody with Estrogenpositive, HER2-negative who got complete respons? What was your Ki67?

Anna-33

Nobody

weesa

Anna, you've asked a good question and I'm sure people will be along with their experience with neoadjuvant chemo and complete response. I did not have neoadjuvant but wanted to let you know I am almost 15 years out with a huge 8cm tumor, several 2cm tumors wrapped around sentinel nodes and worse yet a 75% Ki-67.I was Luminal B which is not regarded as having as favorable a prognosis as Luminal A. I'm still doing well, in fact had a mammogram just today. So...I guess in a way you could say I musta had a complete response! I ran into my onc, now retired, recently, and he confessed he prayed for me-didn't think his medicine was going to be my cure.(That left me with a weird, complicated feeling!)

I sense from your question and the date you were diagnosed you're probably going through the dark times right now. Keep reading here, you will run into a few of us old timers who have just been too ornery and stubborn to let breast cancer back in. You are so far away, sending hugs anyway! Weesa

Anna-33

Thank you Weesa! AS you already noticed...I am in a "down period"... It is so hard having really small children and go through this.

Rambros

I didn't have neoadjuvant chemo either, but I know what you mean about going through treatment & surgeries with little kids (mine were 5 & 2). It's so hard and you feel guilty that your children have to deal with having a 'sick' mom who is too tired to do fun things. I can promise you though that life will get so much better as soon as you finish active treatment - I planned so many weekend events and little trips to try to make up for the 6 months I 'missed'. Before you know it life is back to normal for your children and in their minds you are all better. My younger son doesn't even remember any of it. Take care

sbelizabeth

No complete response here either. Good margins were found on mastectomy, but the original area of skin that had tested positive for dermal lymphatic invasion, still had many cancer "emboli" in the lymphatics. My comfort was to think that the cancer was no longer on my chest but in a jar on a lab shelf somewhere.

Anna, my axillary node findings were almost the same as yours. This month I'm six years NED. Working full time, loving my grandbabies, gratefully living life. I'm sorry you're trudging through the dark, shadowy part of breast cancer treatment, but hold on to hope.