Hi all. Well it's Wednesday March 7th. Today I went to see the surgeon who went over my pathology report with me. The tumor was 2.5 cms (1 inch) which makes it bad and when he removed it he got clear margins. That means they feel that they got all of the tumor. The lymph nodes he took were not malignant which is good. My receptors are unfavorable hormone receptors which is bad. We already knew that the cancer was aggressive which is bad. SO -- out of 4 conditions that they base the histological grading on (1-3) mine had 3 of 4 that were bad. My histological grade is a 3 - which is bad. He said there is a chance of reoccurance, even in the breast.
Based on this diagnosis, I have decided to go to Roswell Park in Buffalo for my chemo treatments. I will have an oncology doctor here in Corning as adjuvent care to my Buffalo oncologist who will have my records and be able to do bloodwork and treat symptoms between visits to Buffalo. I have an appointment with the oncology doctor here in Corning on Wednesday the 14th to go over my pathology report and get a file set up here.
I have a great Oncology Nurse working with me from United Health Care's Cancer Resource Services who has sent me information on understanding my pathology report and she has opened up a claim for me to go to Roswell which is one of 22 Cancer Center's of Excellence that participate in this special cancer program. I am calling her tomorrow to go over my pathology report. Unless she sees some reason in the report that I should go to Sloan Kettering instead - I will sign up for and become a patient at Roswell immediately.
My body is glad to be free of the staples that came out surprisingly easily. I am still to wear a bra for the next 4 days 24 hours a day. I can drive and take a bath now. Life is almost back to normal.
Thank you for all the prayers about "no lymph involvement" because without a doubt - they worked. I am truly blessed by all your love and prayers.
I will post again when I have more information to share.
My love to all of you.
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