Two types of cancer in one breast

I had 2 tumors on left side, one ilc 1cm and one idc with lobularfeatures 1cm. I had no nodes involved. There was 4cm separating the tumors. Tumor close to surface, but no skin involved. It was thought multifocal multicentric after mastectomy it was determine with 95% confidence they were 2 synchronous tumors separate occurrences. Which was good news one was grade 1 snd the other was grade 2. Both had mitotic score of 1, slow dividing. My her2 was equivocal but I thought it was equivocal after FSH test but it was below threshold so her2 negative. My er was 95% pr was zero. My oncodx was 34, but I didn't do chemo I did 4 years AI therapy. Still here no cancer, 7th year.

Dela, yes that is what I had the MRI gave me a 10% chance of finding cancer in lymph nodes. Then during the mastectomy they did a sentinel node biopsy 3 nodes and showed zero out of 3 no cancer. The sizes of tumors were the same as what MRI had shown, and suspicious ultrasound area turned out to be normsl tissue.

Good luck on surgery, they drain was not uncomfortable like I thought the plastic is very flexible.

redgirl, glad PT is working. I found relief in swimming laps, 1 mile but after I get home maybe 1 hour or 2 later I feel the tightness again. It has been 6.5 years since surgery.

My situation was similar to Meow with both lobular and ductal tumors. The micromets in my sentinel node were not seen during the quick check during surgery, only after complete pathology was done. Since that was 7 years ago, complete axillary dissection was performed plus I had chemo. No radiation because it would have compromised my reconstruction. Has anyone suggested genetic counseling?

Now I have lymphedema - I hope redgirl has a physical therapist trained in treating LE. Mine conditionis stable using a regimen of water exercise and my Flexi Touch machine.

For Dela, it sounds like you are well prepared and will do fine. My niece spent last year in Spain during college. Wish we could have gone to visit while she was there. She just graduated and is going off to Japan!

My PT person had bc herself - twice. She found out she carries the gene. She specializes in bc. However, nobody can be certain lymphedema will not occur early on or later on. I try to listen to my body. I protect that arm. My sensitivity was all the way to the wrist right after surgery. Awful. Felt like knives and electro shock every few seconds. I wore sleeves all the time. Today the sensitivity is pretty much just around my armpit. A bit on the back of my arm. I do daily exercises several times a day. All I can say is it is getting better. So the trend is good.

Lumpectomy 10/15/18, Solid papillary carcinoma with associated focus of invasive ductal carcinoma. Grade 2.

Finding the invasive prompted the surgeon to order an Oncotype on the papillary which came back with an unexpectedly high score of 34.

So now Chemo is in my future

Ann Mar~ I have one elderly aunt who had BC but no other family history of it. I don't believe I was tested for the BRCA gene.

I get my port installed December 19th and will start chemo in January of 2019

(I asked for a delay to travel out of state to celebrate my mom's birthday)

qins, I suggest you start a fresh thread of your own in the JUST DIAGNOSED section.

This thread is old and was more about having 2 different cancers at same time, not many years apart.

I think you'll get more responses.