Stage 2-recurrance percentage % risk?
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FWIW - after not having joint pain initially, I started developing it and it reached the point that it was unremitting, despite switching AIs. I started taking Boswellamine (3Xdaily) and found the pain receding after maybe 10 days or so. It's been a few months and the pain is intermittent, much less intense, and limited in scope. I now take it only 2x day and seem to be doing fine on that.
I know everyone's different but it might be worth trying. I wouldn't have except that I was desperate but I'm glad I did.
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Thinking Positive:
Go to the website lifemath.net for a free outcome calculator. You put on your information from the biopsy and then your treatments.
It can translate the info into a happy face (100 faces) to graphically illustrate cancer mortality rate over time. This has really put someone my family member's minds at ease. They know I have a 93% chance of still being alive in 5 years. They can see that by having treatment I have increased my life expectancy by 10.7 years over doing no therapy.
Lifemath.net/cancer/breastcancer
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I go on here so seldom that I get into old posts. Just wondering how you are doing now Thinking Positive? It's been a few years, and I hope there has been no recurrence in your life.
I had an oncotype score of 50. I'm here 9 years later. I hope this helps you. I had the same size and type of cancer you had. Stage IIB Grade 3--one micrometastises sentinel node. The doctor wondered if she should have taken out more nodes after surgery was over. I didn't want her to go back in and said no. So, I don't know if more nodes were positive or not.
I know I had to wait six weeks for surgery, and I always wondered if those biopsies and the long wait made stuff spread.
Anyway, I'm here 9 years later after chemo and no radiation. Chose not to have radiation because of autoimmune problems. And I couldn't take Femara, Arimidex or Tamoxifen. Just too hard on the body. I tried. And nine years later----I'm here. I hope you are as well, and doing fine.
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Pjreeder, thank you for being a ray of hope. You keep going!
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