Success Stories!

Thank you shorbr,

as I can see, your NED for 7 years and this is really great. Could you please tell my which therapy you got?

Marlenet: I will think of you on Monday! 

Hi Moonflower,

I was 49 at the time and turning 50 the following month. They considered me young and thought the chemotherapy would be beneficial for me.

Had lumpectomy, SNB, had Adrianmycin (4 treatments every 3 weeks), and radiation therapy. Even went through a bout with depression and I was prescribed Lexapro (which was a lifesaver for me). I cried literally for about 3 months before taking it. I was so gloom and doom. Then about a year after I had salpingo-oophorectomy because tumor markers were a "little" elevated, but we wanted to be sure there was nothing going on. Everything was normal. Oh...took Tamoxifen for one year and had 4 years of Arimidex.

I still have bilateral breast MRI and mammogram yearly and just "graduated" to having yearly check-up with medical oncologist and I see my breast oncologist every 6 months.

Other than that, I feel fine. Hope you will be able to breeze through your treatment. Take care.

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What I love about this thread is I realize how public we can be about our situations. This was not true of women generations back, when to say the word "breast" aloud was in bad taste. Even now, I know older women who speak freely and frankly, but simply point when it comes to that word.

 This is a terrible journey, and I can only imagine the horror of having to go it alone and keep it kind of secret. I am grateful to Betty Ford, for one, who brought this into the open. I'm also grateful for advocacy groups that keep this on the front burner. 

My story with cancer began last week when the doctor confirmed tht the huge lump of 8cm in my left breast is cancer :(s I am only 24 years I dnt have kids and it s shoking for me I am a cabin crew and cannot join my team coz i have to undergo chemical therapy i started yesterday my first injection FEC and they did me radiology and found no room for cancer in my entire body it s still localised in my left breast doctors said that it is a manageable and that i will survive but I am so scared and  i need some advice and some successful stories to give me faith and courage I told my bf and he is shoked as well I feel that m through a nightmare

Rosaa- So sorry about your dx but I am happy you have found this site. It has helped me so much. I am new to this also. I was dx in Nov. The most important thing I have learned so far is BREATH, nice slow deep breaths. There are tons of success stories here and more being made each day. My advice would be to learn everything you can about your cancer, type (ER/PR/Her2) status, grade, is it invasive, or not. make sure you ask lots of question. There are lots of sisters here that have been through this and have lots of information and lots of sisters that know where to find information. Again I am so sorry you are here.

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Three weeks ago - on my way to the hospital to get my Herceptin treatment - while waiting for the bus in the cold I met a woman who was a 20 years survivor! She did not know the type of bc she had because back then it was not analyzed. But she said it was agressive. She said she had breast cancer in her forties. She also had a lumpectomy and chemo -a really drastic type of chemo. She looked great. She said she was doing fine and was soon retiring from work.

Thank you Survivorwoman

Thank you for passing those stories along!

Kelley - I noticed you are triple negative. I know a lady who is the facilitator at my young survivors meetings in NYC. She is also triple negative. She has been cancer free for about ten years. Triple negatives do very well on chemo. Stay strong. How many more chemo do you have left?

Boy, did i need to read these tonight!  Thanks.

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Carmelle, that is FANTASTIC!  Thank you so much for sharing!