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Types and Stages of Breast Cancer Questions about the different types and stages of breast cancer. |
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| 3/5/2012 | Hi again, I just received my pathology report and I was wondering about the possibility of Chemo. I am going to see an Oncologist Monday but I would really like a heads up or the ability of asking some educated questions. Histololgic Type: Invasive Ductal Carcinome Tubular Deff: Score 1 >75% of tumar area forming Grandular/tubular structures Nuclear Pleomorphism: Score 1 Mitotic Count:Score1 Overall Grade: Grade 1: scores 3,4 or 5 Margins: uninvolved by invasive carcinoma Lymph-Vascular invasion: not identified lYmph Nodes: total (sentinel and nonsentinel) 3 # of nodes w/macro: 0 # of nodes w/micro: 0 Primary Tumor: pT1a Tumor more then 0.1cm but more then 0.5cm in greatest dimension pN:pNO Distant Metastasis: not applicable Tumor glands are negative for p63 and calponin Thanks so much! | ||
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| 3/5/2012 | first, congrats on being early stage!!! stage 1 !!!!! the hormone receptors, and HER2 receptor will greatly influence if chemo is or isn't recommended so you need to find out that info. your age and how aggressive you personally want to be needs to be factored in too. | ||
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