We met with my surgeon, Dr. Jennifer Tittensor on Thursday. Her name though.... I guess if you have that name, you kind of have to go into that field right?
She was great and explained things really well. It's just so much information that it's all muddled in my head.
What we know;
1- Chemo will come first. I will do 8 treatments, 1 every 2-3 weeks.
2- port surgery for chemo on March 25
3-Pet scan to check my whole body to see if cancer has spread anywhere else
4- The order will go Chemo, Masectomy and then radiation.
5- Tumor is Estrogen and Progesterone positive (this is good) and HER2 negative (also good)
What we don't know:
1- Dr. Tittensor took a biopsy of my skin because she is still concerned it could still be inflammatory breast cancer (the bad one) She said it just has the appearance that it could be. I will get the results tomorrow.
2-For sure I'm a stage III, but not sure where within stage 3. Depends if it's inflammatory or not and if the PET scan finds cancer somewhere else, it's a stage 4
3-The treatment order may change if it's inflammatory. So that's still a bit up in the air.
I'm super scared, mad, depressed and a tiny bit hopeful depending on the moment.
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