5 year survivors, post your screen name here!

Congratulations on your new granddaughter c2will! So glad your hubby is NED too:)

Big hugs

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1986 2cm+ ER+/PR+ mastectomy no further treatment -still here 29 years later but with 40 year old dau with HER2+ diag 2013.

Congrats dolittle! FYI I too was HER2+. I'm coming up on 5 years NED myself. 49 at diagnosis. Things are different for HER2+ than they were 29 years ago, even 5 years ago. Herceptin is a real life saver. Now they have Perjeta too which I didn't get because it wasn't approved yet for early stage. Hope your daughters journey is as easy as mine was.

Yay Cowgal!

Hello, community. I am so blessed. I remember praying to see my two daughters graduate from high school. My oldest graduated from college in '12, and my youngest will graduate from UMass in two weeks.

Medicine is wonderful; I am a lucky woman.

Eileeng Which UMass. I went to UMass Amherst my first 2 years of college before I transferred out to The Art Insititute of Chicago.

Yayy! JFV, congratulations:)

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Awesome, JFV!

Today I 'passed' my yearly oncology checkup; so I am officially still in the clear, happy and grateful, 8 years out!

way to go Ruthbru!!!

I'm marking my seventh year post-diagnosis and treatment for stage I HER-2 positive breast cancer. I was part of the APT trial at Dana-Farber, which evaluated the efficacy of using taxol and herceptin to treat small, node-negative HER-2 positive BC. I had a lumpectomy, 12 sessions of TH, 33 rounds of radiation, and finished the year of Herceptin. I took letrozole for five years. Excellent check-ups since. Those long days of fatigue and anxiety are a thing of the past. I do have peripheral neuropathy from the taxol, but nothing's perfect!

Unfortuately, I was diagnosed in March with a rare form of Hodgkins lymphoma, totally unrelated to the breast cancer. I'm getting excellent care at Dana-Farber, and am reassured that the prognosis for this form of lymphoma is excellent. The diagnosis was due to an incidental finding--during a routine mammogram, the radiologist noted an enlarged lymph node. I am eternally grateful to a very fussy, very meticulous radiologist. And reminded how important routine follow-up can be.

Sending you all best wishes for many happy and healthy years!

kayb,

Thanks for the kind words.

That five-year anniversary is huge!

And yes, stay away from buses.

--Ann

kayb....yay you!!!!!!!