Got my biopsy results

llupp

Invasive ductile carcinoma grade 3 positive need MRI to fully evaluate the size and extent of disease. So what is the usually course of treatment? I have a appt on the 15th for MRI and surgeon and info dog on the 18th

Denise-G

llupp - oh so sorry. It is all so scary and particularly anxiety producing when you don't have a plan or course of treatment as yet. The best advice I can give - make sure you trust the institution where you are anticipating going for treatment. Do your homework in this in between time. And make sure that you take someone with you to your appointments to take notes. The patient's brain kind of turns to mush with all that information thrown at you.

You will find so much support here. Sending my best to you.

moth

sorry to hear you got this sucky news llupp

Do you know your hormone receptor status yet?

I think it's hard to say what is "usual" treatment because it depends on your age, comorbidities and the particular presentation of your tumor.

Surgery might be lumpectomy (+ radiation) or mastectomy (you might able to skip rads then if you don't have any lymph node affected)

I read that Grade 3 makes chemo more likely but if you qualify for genomic tumor testing like oncotype or mammaprint that would give your team more info about the risk/benefit of chemo for you.

fwiw, chemo isn't necessarily as awful as I imagined it would be. At first I was surprised to learn that some people manage to work through almost all of it but now I know how they do it. There are entire long chunks of time where I'm just totally fine.

No matter what you & your team decides for your treatment, know that you can do it & we'll cheer you on.

gwydiana

They told you that it was invasive? I just got a call from Kaiser Nurse telling me that my biopsy came back positive for cancer but she didn't tell me anything else. I'm wracked with worry and will be heading to Kaiser first thing tomorrow to get a copy of the pathology report for myself. The lack of info is maddening.
I really hope you get the very best of care!

llupp

I went in a got a copy of my report from the office.

tlgio17

Hi Llupp,

Sorry you had to join us lovely ladies here but it is a very good place to talk to others and find information. The hardest part is all the waiting for tests, results, dr apts, etc. And then when they give you the treatment plan its all overwhelming. I would say try as hard as you can not to over google things, as it can lead to anxiety and a lot of what is out there is the bad and not the good! I had IDC, Stage 2B, grade III and it was in 2/5 lymph nodes. My treatment was 4 AC chemos, 12 Taxol, and then 5 weeks of rads all after a right side mastectomy all in 2017. I am now on the finale which is taking Arimidex for 5 yrs. Try and take one step at a time, and things will get easier once you have the plan and information in place. Hugs!!

llupp

Thank you for the the info.

GrooGruxQueen

@ - tlgio17

You pretty much answered a question that I was going to ask. My dr told me that I was going to need chemo and radiation and she'd also mentioned possibly a mastectomy. I didn't know if that came before, during, after or what. I was confused about things to begin with but when I heard her say the words mastectomy my brain just stopped and I didn't hear her say or think to ask her when it would happen.

After when you went through the chemo and radiation then have the mastectomy did you have to go through the whole chemo and radiation process again?