Mets through nodes or blood stream

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Susan_H
Susan_H Member Posts: 6
edited December 2015 in IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)

I've just finished chemo (yay) and am now moving on to the surgical part of my journey. So as things are winding down of course I'm starting to stress about mets. I remember my MO telling me that it's much more likely for cells to met through the nodes than the blood stream. Has anyone else heard this or heard any percentages of how many with clear nodes have distant recurrance?

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  • wrenn
    wrenn Member Posts: 2,707
    edited December 2015

    I think triple negative or metaplastic are more likely to met with negative nodes.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2015

    The hard part about finding information to this question is that they usually just track whether or not you are still living at X amount of years and most of them don't go out past 5 or even 10 years. They don't specifically track if the cancer has metastasized and you are now Stage IV. As long as you are "alive" you would be dumped in the "survived" stat.

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  • Calcon
    Calcon Member Posts: 21
    edited December 2015

    I've also heard there's a greater likelihood of cancer cells travelling through the lymphatic system. I remember researching this at the time of my first diagnosis, but didn't come up with much as there'd been very little research in this area.

    Unfortunately, I was one of those node negative cases that had progression. But try not to dwell on it too much. The stats are still on your side as you're early stage and had great treatment with the TCHP. I assume that you will continue with the monoclonal antibody therapy and hormonal treatment, offering further protection.

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  • Gohan1983
    Gohan1983 Member Posts: 62
    edited December 2015

    Yes, beacuse some metaplastic variants of breast carcinomas behave like sarcomas. Sarcomas tend to spread primarily through the bloodstream

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  • Beatmon
    Beatmon Member Posts: 1,562
    edited December 2015

    I had negative nodes, so apparently my mets was through blood stream. But do we really know? In 10 years will scientist find out something different. Try not to worry

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