Treatment after DCIS, BMX, HER2+, ER & PR +

Tiger720, we're sorry you find your self in this situation, but wanted so say welcome! We hope some of our Community members come along to post soon with some insight and advice.

As you can read in the article How to Read Hormone Receptor Test Results from our main site, "hormonal therapy (such as tamoxifen) may help to slow or stop the growth of hormone-receptor-positive breast cancers by lowering your body's estrogen levels or blocking the effects of estrogen. These medications also may reduce the risk that the cancer will come back."

If your cell sample tests positive, it's not unusual that your doctor will prescribe some form of hormonal therapy at some point in your treatment plan. Follow this links for more information on Treatments for Hormone-Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer and to know more on Treatment for DCIS.

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Hello all. Not sure if anyone is still active on this thread, but I may be in this position (then again, maybe not). No one seems to be able to figure out what I have, partly because, luckily, the invasive cancer within a larger piece of DCIS was small (2-3 mm out of a 2 cm mass). Had BMX as I have ATM mutation and SLNB (four nodes), and they said that there was a micrometastasis of .25 mm in one of the lymph nodes. Given the amount of tissue they have to work with, they are having trouble figuring out what kind of invasive cancer is there (at first they thought invasive papillary carcinoma), whether it is HER2+, and what my Oncotype DX score would be. So I am a week out from surgery and likely won't know much more for a few more weeks since pathology hasn't got a lot to work with but is going to try to do a FISH test. Was told the likely recommendation would be Tamoxifen and possibly Herceptin, and started looking at HER2+ info today after not having done so before and now totally freaked out. Would love to hear how other people's experiences have been, what Herceptin is like, etc...

I was going to suggest you PM Beatmon, but now that I think of it she is ER-, PR-, Her2 pos and did not have the luxury of hormonal therapy. She knows a bunch about Her2 pos, though. (Hi Beatmon 😘)