cancer breast stage 3

Hi, I am sorry to hear that your sister had to battle breast cancer at the age of 28. Breast cancer in younger women tends to be more agressive than that occuring in the older age group. The fact that she had bilateral synchronous cancers at a young age is worrying. However, if a full oncologic surgery is complete, along with chemo and now radiation, then I can assume that she is being treated with a curative intent. Also, you mentioned that she will be put on hormones.

From the San Antonio Breast Conference in December 2009, new data shows a higher than predicted rate of breast cancer recurrence even with very small breast cancers that are HER2 positive. The data is from the first large study to analyze early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller. All these women would benefit from adjuvant Trastuzumab, also known as Herceptin, (for one year, the standard in America) - along with adjuvant chemotherapy.

Terrin, Unfortunately the stats have not changed much and for the very reasons listed above. But you must remember though the stats may say that there is only a 25 % survival rate to 5 years, each and every one of us has the chance to be in that 25%. (Actually for stage IV I think it is something a little closer to 17 %, I am not sure about IIIc) Dr Dean is right, it is hard to be heard when there are so few of us when compared to how many thousands of "the others".

My mom is 54 years old and detected with right breast cancer. As per the report ER & PR are negetive and CERB B2 is positive with score 3. What stage of cancer she is having? And how many chemotherapy are required? Please help..... This discussion is related to <a href='/posts/show/559549'>what do ER-Negative,PR-Positive and Cerb B2-Negative indicate?</a>.

My brother was diagnosed to have Stage III Breast Cancer..he underwent Modified Radical Mastectomy & his histopath results showed positive ER/PR/Her2Neu...what exactly does triple positive test results mean in lay man's term? ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ASSAY = POSITIVE, STAINING INTENSITY=+2, PERCENT TUMOR CELLS STAINED=+5, PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR ASSAY=POSITIVE, STAINING INTENSITY=+3, PERCENT TUMOR CELLS STAINED=+4, c-erb-B2 (Her-2/neu) =POSITIVE...

hi and thank you for taking te time, my father in law was just told he has stage 3 colon cancer. they are going to do surgery monday. what are the chances for him, hes 85. and whats the chances its not spread with stage 3 , sorry i know nothing about the stages so just wanting to know if stage 3 is bad.

I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Breast cancer , Tumor size 2.9 ~ Grade 3, ER positive , positive nodes, Her2 negetive. My question is ~ Will chemo be benificial to me . They recommened it because my tumor is a grade 3 and I had node involvment . But my cancer is ER positive and I thought that Chemo is not effective on ER positive Breast cancer but Tamoxafin is the best choice ??? Would my tumor be er positive ??

Another breast cancer Website had an article that mentioned Stage V in its title, but not in the article itself. After I pointed out the error to them, they indicated they would make a correction. (They also mentioned that some people "unofficially" talk about Stage V when there is nothing more that can be done except palliative treatment.) I also came across a Website for alternative/herbal tx that unofficial stage designation.

I had stage 3+ breast cancer 6 years ago and had a lumpectomy (twice) and after chemo and radiation was put on Femara since my cancer was hormone sensitive. I've been on it the required 5 years and now the pharmaceutical company says another 5 years. My insurance won't pay for it after January, so does anyone have any ideas or experienced something similar? Femara is many hundreds of $ a month, so paying for it without help is not an option. Anyone had a similar experience?

I was Diganosed with stage 2B Triple negative breast cancer in December 19, 2006.All my tests came back one positive node and the cancer in left breast. I had Chemo then before I finished Chemo the cancer came back to the same 2 areas.Then I had a masectomy followed by more chemo and 7 weeks of radiation. Just recently I asked my Oncologist to order another Pet Scan just to make sure everything was going good. The first Pet scan in August 22, 2007 came back negative.

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A friend diagnosed breast canver with invasive ductal carcinoma, NOS, grade 3 of 3, Sentinel Lymph Node reactive node, Tissue Medial Margin, stitch away from tumour negative. Her FISH test is negative. Do you think she need a chemotherapy or just radiation?

I have seen and heard of patients developing NHL secondary to chemotherapy treatment for another cancer; that is possible. I am trying to figure out how the Oncologist is using the CA 15-3 and CEA markers; can't see how it ties into monitoring the NHL.

Hi,You are right,there is NO stage 5 breast cancer...what your friend might have heard is that her BIRADS score is a 5...(.BIRADS are used by radiologist to categorize the imagery seen on mammograms and they give a score from 1 to 5.A score of five means that the lesion seen in the mammogram or ultrasound ,is highly suspicious of malignancy..but a biopsy is the only test that will give an accurate diagnosis.As Versh mentioned the breast cancer stage goes only up to 4.

s dx. stage means how far the cancer has spread, grad means how aggresive the cancer is. grade 1 to grade 3, the cancer is getting more aggresive, less differentiated. You should be still very happy for your mother's dx since her is still 1c, very early, still have good chance to get cured.

i have just been diagnosed with Metaplastic breast cancer stage 2 and 3 ..last Friday... have felt breathless for at least 2 months or more it comes at any time...and they want me in surgery in 3 weeks....i also have AF...

My mother has been suffering from breast cancer since the past 3 years and dint go under any treatment and passed the 3 years only with the help of yoga. Now she has been admitted to the hospital since the past 3 months and has a pipe attached to her right lung as there is liquid present in her right lung as the cancer had spread to there. She has gone through 2 chemotherapy of carboplatin and taxol.

I was diagnosed with breast ductal invasive carcinoma at grade 3. I had a lumpectomy done and I’m going to start chemo next week. Why can’t anyone tell me the stage?

The doctors told us that her stage 3 could be moved to stage 4 if this has spread any further. Why is this cancer so aggressive? She is 51 years old. We are all very worried and scared. What exactly does the triple negative mean? Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I had signs of HPV the kind that leads to cervical cancer- i HAD A dysplasia on my cervix and a burning procedure where it was sent out to see if it was malignant in stage 2 at one gyno- but the new gyno didnt know until just now- what should I do? he seemed concern but at the same time I already have stage 3 breast cancer- i'm thinking a whole hysterectomy.

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