Survival rates by stage for TN

I think about this sometimes but try not to get to hung up on it. My Oncologist told me that without chemo there was approximately a 60-65% chance it wouldn't come back but with chemo it was raised to 78-81%. I'd like to feel as confident as he is but I'm still nervous They say the further out from treatment you get the easier it becomes but for some reason I've been pretty fearful the past few months. This coming January will be two years since my diagnosis and I think one reason I'm more nervous is they say IF TNBC recurs it usually does in the first three years. Maybe someone with more knowledge about your question will know more than me though. Try not to get too hung up on stats though!

CherryHill,

My onc said my survival chances are 85 percent. I am stage 2b also. I had one positive node. She said my chances would have been a little better if I had had a complete response to chemo (I had a good partial response - shrank 77 percent andki67 dropped from 70 to 17.) I would have had worse chance if more nodes or not a good response to chemo. 

Cherry, I too had my mastectomy before chemo so I don't know how I responded either. At the time I felt like I just wanted the tumor out! I was a Stage 2A and I didn't even ask what the Ki67 was. Maybe I don't even want to know. My tumor was 3.5 cm's but I had no nodes involved. But even though you had nodal involvement they removed it. All we can do is trust the doctors as they each know our individual case. We could all have the same diagnosis and stage but our bodies are all different. 

I was stage 2b (one confirmed lymph node by biopsy) and had neoaduvant taxol and ac. At surgery, I had no cancer found in breast but still had cancer in two lymph nodes (one was a "micromet"). My MO told me after surgery and completing radiation that I had a 10% to 15% chance of getting mets and a 5% chance of local recurrence. What she told me seems to fit with all the research I have done on my particular case. I like to think that with each day that passes, my chances of mets go down a little bit! Every day without a diagnosis of mets is a good day in my book.

Dissie, the best people to ask what your survival rate is (if you really want to know) are your MO and your BS. They have your exact info and can tell you what the statistics are for your particular case. I think each day that goes by without being diagnosed with stage IV is great! The way I look at it, it's a day closer to being 5 years out.

Ki67 is the proliferation rate, ie, how fast the cancer cells are dividing and the tumor is growing. Higher rates are more aggressive tumors. Less than 10 percent is slow growing. 10-20 percent is intermediate. Above 20 percent is fast growing. Mine was 70 percent. Aggressive is not good, but the upside is that chemo targets fast-proliferating cells, so often works better on fast growing tumors. Not always, though. Sometimes the tumor is resistant to the chemo

I am a member of this website.  There are some ladies that are like 8-10 years out from Cancer treatment.  Some before they were called triple negative.
http://www.tnbcfoundation.org/ 

I had chemo first, then lumpectomy then radiation.  It amazes me how across the U.S. how the treatment differs.  Some docs want surgery first and some chemo first.   I am currently PCR or NED depending on what you call it.  I just want to stay that way.  The only thing I have read that is true across the boards is if we make it 3 years without reoccurrence it's like 5 years for regular breast cancer and can expect to stay NED.

I have not seen any chart, paper, article nothing about survival rates by 3NBC stages, maybe someday.