TouaregV8
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So this was there untreated for almost a decade?
Very possible.
Is there any update? I understand if you do not want to post about it, but I was hoping for any good news about the stage and the presence of cancer in her bones.
Ultrasound done on 8/26 showed that both tumors have decreased in size and the lymph node that was cancerous appears normal now just after 3 chemo treatments. As far as the bone cancer goes, my wife had a bone biopsy scheduled on 9/26 that was recently canceled because the radiologist feels the spots are too small to biopsy. So still unsure whether this is stage 2 or 4, but I'm calling this good news for now. My wife gets switched to a different chemo drug (taxol) on her next chemo treatment in two weeks. That drug will be administered once a week for 12 weeks. Surgery should be scheduled around the end of December and will more than likely be a skin saving mastectomy (hopefully). They do not remove the nipple on a skin saving mastectomy. My wife may opt for a double mastectomy to take more of a preventative approach but she hasn't 100% made up her mind yet. Doctors still say radiation will be required after the surgery. Reconstructive surgery (implants) cannot begin until 6 months after radiation so my wife still has a long road ahead of her.
I sincerely thank each and every one of you for your thoughts and prayers.