HER2- breast HER2+ lymph node. Anyone else

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Jimiwithani
Jimiwithani Member Posts: 35
edited February 2019 in Mixed Type Breast Cancer

I found out I’m...

ER+ PR+ HER2- in my breast. But

I’m ER+ PR+ HER2+ in my lymph nodes.

I have port put in next Wednesday and start chemo (4 drugs -forgot names) Thursday. She said after chemo I’m on quarantine until I see her the next week to makesure my white blood cell counts are good. I’ll have 6 rounds every 3 weeks. Then I go to 2 drugs until next July. But when I finish the first round I’ll have surgery the radiation. Anyone else out there like me or have you hear anything you can share. Good or bad. Thanks


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  • ElaineTherese
    ElaineTherese Member Posts: 3,328
    edited July 2018

    Hi!

    It sounds like your doctors are treating you as though you have triple positive (ER+/PR+/HER2+) breast cancer, and you're getting Taxotere + Carboplatin + Herceptin + Perjeta, surgery, radiation, and Herceptin + Perjeta until next July.

    Come join us on the Triple Positive Board; plenty of us have experience with this regimen (though I personally did AC + THP).

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/80/topics/764183?page=1196#idx_35865

    It's a marathon, not a sprint. ((Hugs))

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  • footloose
    footloose Member Posts: 47
    edited February 2019

    Jimiwithani, I was interested that you were able to find out your receptors for your lymph node. I called the pathologist and asked if they could differentiate [since I had different reports for the different tumors in my breast] and he said "No" they didn't do that.

    Can I ask where your from or what hospital you were seen at so I could refer my pathologist there??

    Thank you!

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