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HER2 positive stage 1 or 2 diagnosis: What questions to ask?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Feb 15 11:45am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
I am sure this is unusual but my biopsy tissue was HER2+. After a few equivocals and a retest with more cells, my post surgery pathology was proven to be HER2-.
My tumor was DCIS, and mixed invasive ductal and lobular, so heterogeneous. One doc said the DCIS was likely the reason for the HER2+ result with biopsy.
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So you have two kinds of cancer too?
Plan is she will have surgery to remove breast due to the size of DCIS and then have chemo - depending on stage after surgery she will have the targeted HER2+ chemo for 12 weeks or if they increase the stage a more aggressive chemo for 5 months
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Wow this is intriguing. The MRI biopsy pathology came back as DCIS. Stage 0 for now. They are now recommending surgery first. They did say they will know for sure what stage both cancers are after the mastectomy and pathology.