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 Asked: 8/3/2009 i was diadnosed with Her 2 Positive,did affect 27 lymph nodees by time it happened.after chemo.herceptin radiaton etc,i started Temoxifen 5 months ago i became...
 Asked: 7/11/2009 My mom recently had a needle biopsy for a small 5mm nodule they found in her breast.
 Asked: 7/5/2009 I have been recently diagnosed with DCIS in my left breast and am being scheduled for a Mastectomy.
 Asked: 7/4/2009 I am a 53 yr old female diagnosed with IDC on April 8th 2009.
 Asked: 6/1/2009 Hi Lillie, My best friend was just diagnosed with breast cancer.
 Asked: 4/20/2009 My wife who is 51 years old was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer.The size of the tumor was 1.7 cm.
 Asked: 4/12/2009 I was diagnosed with breast cancer in November of 2007.
 Asked: 4/4/2009 Dear Lillie, I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer 6 years ago with what was originally thought to be a occult breast tumor, so...
 Asked: 3/28/2009 Hi Lillie, and thanks in advance for answering my question.
 Asked: 3/1/2009 Dear sir, Madame. Since I know no Oncologiste, I am turning to you for help.
 Asked: 2/28/2009 I had a lumpectomy for IDC of 1.5mm.
 Asked: 2/21/2009 I know that the risk of recurrence is greatest during the first two years.
 Asked: 2/14/2009 I have invasive ductal breast cancer, with a mitotic rate of 1 and an score of 6 total for moderately differentiated.
 Asked: 2/8/2009 Hi, I was diagnosed last Feb. with triple neg invasive breast cancer.
 Asked: 2/8/2009 Hi Lillie! It’s been a real comfort reading your answers over the past year.
 Asked: 2/1/2009 Hi Lillie, I am so confused about reoccurance rates and survival rates.
 Asked: 1/31/2009 Hi Lilli, I hope you are well.Is there anything new re triple neg BC? I am starting my 4th year out and I still worry.
 Asked: 1/25/2009 Hi Lillie..I''m so confused about prognosis and percentages.
 Asked: 1/25/2009 61 year old female. Diagnosed with DCIS after mammogram revealed large area of microcalcifications.
 Asked: 1/25/2009 I am 54 yrs. old and was a 17 year survivor until Sept.
 Asked: 1/12/2009 Under what circumstances is the presence of a micrometastasis in a lymph node consider node-negative?
 Asked: 1/3/2009 At 29 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, was treated with neo-adjuvant chemo, 5 cm.
 Asked: 1/2/2009 I''ve had a mastectomy with a tram flap reconstruction.
 Asked: 12/20/2008 Do diet and exercise play any role in helping with treatment or reducing the possibility of reducing reoccurance in Stage III breast cancer?
 Asked: 12/20/2008 You mention that the 5 year survival rate for Stage III (a,b,c) is less than 57 percent.
 Asked: 12/19/2008 My partner was diagnosed in September with Stage IIIc moderately differentiated IDC and some DCIS.
 Asked: 12/19/2008 Hi my wife was dx with IDC 1.8 cm grade II, neg lymph nodes, absent vascular invasion at age 31.
 Asked: 12/15/2008 Hi, my wife got diagnosed with IDC (at 4'' o''clock 3 cm from nipple)1.8 cm grade II (Nottingham 7) with intermediate to high grade extensive...
 Asked: 12/15/2008 I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in June of this year.
 Asked: 12/15/2008 In Jan 2008 I was dx''d IDC, 6x7 cm tumor, grade 2, Stage IIIA.
 Asked: 11/23/2008 My wife''s surgical pathology report says the size of the tumor is 2.9 cm which contains both IDC and DCIS, and lymph node is free.
 Asked: 10/27/2008 I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
 Asked: 10/26/2008 Rec''d pathology report back from biopsy...could you put this in layman terms for me? 1.
 Asked: 10/18/2008 My 86 year old mother was diagnosed with breast cancer one mother ago.
 Asked: 10/18/2008 Good day.I love your site.thnak you so much.
 Asked: 10/10/2008 My friend is stage 3b, it had invaded the breast skin.
 Asked: 10/10/2008 I had byopsi''s of the breast and it came back ductal carsinoma in situ, my quetion is i had a lumpectomy and the doctor said...
 Asked: 10/10/2008 Hello. I was diagnosed with grade 1, highly estrogen and progesterone positive, 2mm in one lymph node, and her2+(+3).
 Asked: 9/29/2008 36 year old diagnosed with DCIS. 9 cm mass with grade 3 cells.
 Asked: 9/29/2008 I had a lumpectomy to remove a 1.4 invasive tumor.
 Asked: 8/22/2008 Hi Lillie, Thank you, In follow up to my Question on the Stage 1 Grade I, Her2+.
 Asked: 8/22/2008 I am 45, pre menopause. Had 1.5 cm of DCIS grade 3.
 Asked: 8/22/2008 I went to the doctor thinking I had an IDC which would be removed via lumpectomy after neoadjuvant chemo.
 Asked: 8/10/2008 Hi, me again, just had a double mastectomy for IDC,1cm tumor, Her2+, ER+,sentinal node negative, of the left breast.
 Asked: 8/9/2008 Lillie, thanks for answering so promptly. To refresh, I had large tumor, ER positive, mediastinal and lymph node involvement, unsure if I am IIIC or IV.
 Asked: 8/9/2008 Hi could you please explain these terms no LVI, ER + VE, PR + VE and Her 2 neg, also I finished radiation for a...
 Asked: 8/8/2008 I have possibly a strange question. I have been diagnosed with multifocal IDC, pT1a pN1 pMx, nottingham score 8, the largest invasive focus 3.5mm and triple negative.
 Asked: 8/3/2008 I have a weird question - why is it that stage I breast cancer does not have 100% survival.
 Asked: 7/27/2008 Do they add up multicentric tumors for one size when staging? In other words, my mom has one main tumor 1.8 x 1.3 x 1.9...
 Asked: 4/27/2008 I posted one question in chemo section and left off one question.
 Asked: 4/27/2008 2 questions about triple negative breast cancer: 1.
 Asked: 4/13/2008 I was diagnosed with DCIS about 6 years ago; had lumpectomy and radiation.
 Asked: 4/13/2008 I AM 44 YRS OLD AND HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA.
 Asked: 4/6/2008 I am Stage 2B IDC, 3 of 21 positive nodes.
 Asked: 3/29/2008 A dear friend is in her final days of this god-awful disiease and she''s only 34.
 Asked: 3/29/2008 my question is I have been diagnosed with Stage one breast cancer though it was in three places in one breast, the lymph nodes were...
 Asked: 3/24/2008 For the CEA tumor marker test that I just had, the normal range is listed as 38.
 Asked: 3/24/2008 I was told that I have grade 3 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma.
 Asked: 3/24/2008 What does PN2A mean? My mother has IBC and was given this information.
 Asked: 3/16/2008 Lillie- I just read the posting from 3/15/08 regarding microinvasion and Herceptin.
 Asked: 3/15/2008 I was diagnosed with DCIS and 3 mm of invasive breast cancer.
 Asked: 3/8/2008 My friend was just diagnosed with ILC, ER/PR + and HER2 -, stage IIIB.
 Asked: 2/19/2008 I am 46 and in April of 2005 I was diagnosed with stage 1 bc.
 Asked: 2/17/2008 I have three I lumps in my left breasts.
 Asked: 2/17/2008 I am triple negative - lumpectomy 11/06 with 2 cm margins, dose-dense ACx4, Taxolx4, node negative (10 nodes), 35 rad tx.
 Asked: 2/17/2008 I have been diagnosed with carcinosarcoma Grade 3,2.5cm, extremely brisk mitotic activity of up to 100 per 10 hpf, and surrounded by DCIS.
 Asked: 2/17/2008 I am a 34 year old, who was recently diagnosed with bone mets.
 Asked: 2/14/2008 Hi, I was diagnoised in 2001 with Stage II bc.
 Asked: 2/14/2008 Hello, My sister was diagnoised with DCIS and after radiation she still has a 20% chance of reoccurance.
 Asked: 12/2/2007 Hi Lillie. I was stage 2 BC in 2004.
 Asked: 12/2/2007 Good morning! In your opinion, am I doomed because of an -er,+pr,her2- IDC diagnosis? I was feeling pretty good because I''m stage 1, grade 1, 1cm.
 Asked: 11/28/2007 My partner, 45yo, had loss her rght breast to stage 2 cancer June of this year.
 Asked: 11/18/2007 WAS TOLD I HAVE DCIS NON INVASIVE A BEAUMONT DR.
 Asked: 11/18/2007 hi, i got both my right,left breasts cancer at the same time, i got rt/left cores biopsy.
 Asked: 11/12/2007 my mother-in-law is 56 and has stage 4 breast cancer, had a mastectomy many years ago, cancer has metastasized...i believe it has spread to her...
 Asked: 11/11/2007 I was diagnosed and treated for stage 3A, ER/PR-, Her2+3 IDCin Sept 05.
 Asked: 11/4/2007 I was diagnosed with a 3mm triple negative IDC tumor with DCIS at age 41.
 Asked: 11/4/2007 Hi,I hope you don''t mind a question from someone in the UK, but I have got a lot of useful information from your great site.
 Asked: 11/4/2007 I was diagnosed with breast cancer in Jun 06 (High-grade IDC, left breast, T1c, N0, M0, ER/PR+, HER-2+).
 Asked: 8/27/2007 My 86 year old mother''s biopsy report states (1) invasive ductal carcinoma, Nuclear Grade 2, Histrologic Grade 2 of 3 present in mutiple tissue fragments,...
 Asked: 8/25/2007 Hi.. I was diagnosed just last week with breast cancer, all I know is its a grade 3, 2.7 centimeters, invasive ductal carcinoma..
 Asked: 6/15/2007 I was diagnosed with both ILC and LCIS last week via core biopsy .
 Asked: 6/15/2007 In April of 2005 I was dx''d with a .9mm size tumor, invasive well-differential ductal carcinoma, clear margins, ER+, PR+, Her2 negative, grade 2, no...
 Asked: 6/15/2007 My mom is 61 and has stage 2B Invasive Lobular Carcinoma in the right breast with a 3cm tumor and with 3 (of 33) lymph nodes positive for cancer.
 Asked: 5/16/2007 hi lillie, is stage 2 considered to be early, even with a positive node? The tumor was 1.5cm, so what does the outcome look like?..
 Asked: 4/7/2007 The news lately regarding Elizabeth Edwards has been very confusing to me.
 Asked: 3/17/2007 my mother is 65 and was diagnosed with breast cancer in august of 2006.they discovered she was a stage 4.she had a masectomy on her...
 Asked: 1/29/2007 Hi, we just found out on Dec 28th that my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in China.
 Asked: 1/24/2007 DX 1997 DCIS Right Breast. never Missed a Mamogram Once A Year & Saw My Breast Surgeon for the 5 years after DX.Nov.
 Asked: 1/21/2007 Pathology report says Regional Lymph Nodes: N1a: Metastasis in 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes(at least 1 tumor deposit greater than 2.00mm)Extracapsular Extension: Yes Nodes...
 Asked: 1/15/2007 In 1995 at age 34 with a 2 year old child, I had a mastectomy (non-palpable 5 cm high grade comedo and non-comedo differentiated found...
 Asked: 1/9/2007 I was dx with 0.4cm IDC tubular pT1a and no nodes ER/PR+ 100%, and haven''t found a whole lot about it on the web.
 Asked: 1/9/2007 I have IDC tubular form. Small tumor 0.4cm and removed 10-13.
 Asked: 1/9/2007 Almost everything I read refers to early stage breast cancer.
 Asked: 1/7/2007 First, thank you for this wonderful service.
 Asked: 1/8/2007 Hi Lillie I had a excesional core biposy done a week ago.
 Asked: 12/15/2006 I am stage IIIb, 5 cm, N1, Grade 3, tumors in different quadrants of breast, triple negative, age 50, premenopausal.
 Asked: 12/13/2006 my mother in law has just been told she has breast cancer in both breasts, which has spread to her liver, spine ribs and neck,...
 Asked: 12/12/2006 my mom(53y old) just had her lumpectomy surgery(1.3cmx .8cm)invasive well differential ductual carcinoma, excised with close deep margin(0.1cm) on Friday and at the time her...
 Asked: 11/28/2006 My mom was initially diagnosed with bc in 1999 had radical masectomy with 12 of 15 nodes testing positive.
 
 
 
 
 

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