Stage 3 A,B,and C neoadjuvant chemotherapy

I didn't but it wasn't expected.

My TX plan was always to do neoadjuvant to get the 'nest' to form into a 'lump' with good margin and to shrink. Then UMX. Then adjuvant to 'clean up' any cells that might have been 'hiding' and missed during surgery. It also needs to be remembered that I am IBC which there aren't many of us ( 1-4 out of 100 DXs of all typres of BC will be IBC). For IBC, the SOP for quite a few years (even before my DX) has been neoadjuvant but neoadjuvant is becoming more common for other types.

I did 4DD A/C neoadjuvant, 2 weeks later UMX, 3 weeks later 12 weekly Taxol, a week later 25 rads.

I did not have a complete response either, but my tumor went from 7.5 cm to about 3.5 cm.

Not me. From what I've read on these boards, it seems to be uncommon, particularly for ER+.

Traveltext, did you have genetic testing? Are men who carry the BRCA mutation more likely to get breast cancer?

All my active cancer was gone, but I did have a tiny pocket of DCIS.

I did not but I had a very good response. My tumor shrank from almost 6cm to under .5cm, can't remember the exact number. My scans did not show and node involvement but it turned out I had a few isolated tumor cells in two out of three. I had to have two lumpectomys because I had a little bit of dcis left after first and did 4 more rounds of chemo after. My doctors were all very pleased with my response.

I too had shrinkage but nothing close to a pcr. My MO told me this was the most likely outcome since I was ER+. He said the reason for neo-adjuvant chemo was to clean out any cancer in the bloodstream that might be ready to cause metastatic disease, and to reduce tumor bulk, especially in my case, in the axillary area. I still had 8 positive lymph nodes when I had surgery. That surgery was 7 years ago this week.