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Anyone have metaplastic squamous cell carcinoma of the breast?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Oct 1 5:38pm | Replies (27)Comment receiving replies
I was diagnosed with metaplastic breast cancer squamous in January of this year. It started out as triple negative breast cancer and mutated to metaplastic sometime during chemo. I completed chemo, surgury and radiation and now will start on an oral chemo intended for tnbc. There is absolutely no research to show that this will help, but my oncologist thinks I should try it. Any advice on this? Also, I'm wondering if anyone is taking fish oil and what kind? Thanks!
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@sues2 - didn't mention what oral chemo you intent to take for your TNBC. I am TNBC but also BRCA2 and I'm taking Lynparza but I believe that is for the BRCA mutation. How did they determine your TNBC changed? Was it retested after chemo? I also had chemo after dx, then surgery then radiation. But I don't know if there was any retest to determine any change from TNBC.
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I would ask what are the secondary effects of the oral chemo so you can have all the information you need to make a decision.
Also asking for a second or even third opinion is helpful.
It was in my case , because the size of my tumor after the surgery was three times what the images showed, two oncologist said you need chemo but the third one said , I cannot believe that’s the size of the tumor something should be wrong, so she asked the pathologist to review that again and it turns out that the size was wrong , so I went from T3N0M0 to T1N0M0. The treatment was completely different from that point.
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