Need advice, breast cancer advancing
scottvon2004_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: 30 Dec 2004 01:07:27 -0800
Howdy folks,
Looking for reasoned thoughts or advice in helping to make a decision.
My wife has had a local re-occurance, here's the background: Age 35
2002 tested positive for BRAC2 gene (bad family history on dads side)
2003 Thanksgiving: Found a lump via thermography, biopsy showed cancer,
double mastectomy, 2 nodes tested positive. 8 rounds dose dense chemo
Taxol & A. Staged at 2b.
2004 Thanksgiving: Cat scan she demanded herself at one year
unfortunately showed a tumor in armpit, surgery to remove found two
small tumors, lymph nodes removed (only ten were removed) total = two
positive, rest clean. She is now N.E.D. which sounds nice, but gives
us very little comfort.
Now we are scrambling for best course of action, have seen three
oncologists: Denver, Chicago, Texas. Three very different opinions
ranging from 1. Radiation & nothing more. 2. 10 months of chemo with
different drugs. 3. Possible stem cell rescue, with intense one time
chemo (this one is not all clear to me yet).
She is young, and it seems the younger that a woman gets breast cancer,
the worse they fair, so we lean towards being very agressive. It is
the most aggressive cancer type and there is just no consensus of
opinions, not even close! So while I know no one here can provide any
"magic opinion" I am interested in any and all thoughts, data, feedback
and suggestions that I can weigh into our final discussions and
decisions.
For the first time I find myself leery of more Chemo as the ravaging of
the bodies natural immunity and overall physical condition was so tough
to watch last go-round, and the doc admitted that it sadly had very
little benefit as tests on tumor showed that the cancer was
unfortunately resistant to the two chemo drugs she used. Again just
looking for reasoned thoughts about intelligent course of action here,
so please chime in!
Very much appreciated, thanks everyone!!
Scott
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