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by Karen N on 7/6/2007 at 1:05 amin category Treatment

I started Chemo as a first step in fighting a 5cm tripple neg., poorly dif., ductal carcinoma tumor. At first things were going great, infact the tumor shrunk to about 3.5cm. Then all of a sudden it started growing back. So much infact that I could feel that it was getting bigger. I scheduled an appointment with my dr. and he scheduled me to see the surgen the next week. After my masectomy we found out that the actual size of the tumor was a little over 6cm. So the tumor went from a 3 somthing to a 6 something in 2 weeks. I was totally shocked to say the least. Things went so fast in that whole situation. I feel I didn't have time to really understand what was going on. Now that I've had a little time. I was just woundering if this or something similar has happed to any of you out there? And if so what did you do? What was your next step? How did or is it going? Would love to hear from you.
Thanks alot Karen N.

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Karen, my situation was similar, I am 32, and found a lump in my small size A cup breast and went to my OBGYN and she said to wait a month it was probably a cyst, well by the next month it doubled in size so she sent me for a mammogram. Within two days I was diagnosed with a triple neg tumor, and the size was a 1.4cm. They decided to treat me with Cytoxin and Taxotere to try to shrink the tumor so I could be a better candidate of the lumpectomy. After 4 rounds of Chemo, I knew it was not shrinking, and we did a MRI and the tumor had almost doubled 2.6cm. Two weeks later she scheduled mefor my mastectomy on Jan. 9th 2008 and I am so thankful they got the aggresive tumor out. It did not respond to the Chemo. I am looking at follow-up treatments now and scared the next regimend of Chemo they want to put me on for preventative will work. It is in God's hands, and I pray He will heal me, and make the cancer go away. The surgeon felt he had clear margins and he took 5 of my lymph nodes and they were negative for cancer. That was a blessing. So you were not alone with this scary aggressive triple negative cancer. How are you now? This was 6 months ago, would love to hear from you.

by Meesha939 on 2/5/2008 at 1:45 am

Just found this site a couple days ago. I think each cancer is unique. And all are very frightening. Some more than others. I too was diagnosed with invasive ductal cancinoma, but I'm E & P positive and HER2 positive. How are you doing?

by Jo S on 8/10/2007 at 12:26 am

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