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Lobular Breast Cancer: Let's share and support each other

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I was on AI for 7.5yrs which I asked to go on longer because I read some study that it could be helpful and I tolerated letrozole very well.
I was 48 when I was first diagnosed. 12 yrs ago they lumped lobular cancer in with all cancers and prescribed chemotherapy. Now they know chemo is not helpful for lobular- so you newly diagnosed have that going for you!

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I know you had an early stage of breast cancer, but was it aggressive in terms of the type of ILC? I've been told that so much plays into recurrence beyond stage, such as lymph node involvement, type of ILC, levels of estrogren/progesterone, etc... I ask because I too had stage 1a and I am taking an AI, for 2 years now. I did have a mastectomy. Very grateful I made that decision because the final pathology revealed other things that were never caught in my initial biopsy or MRI/Ultrasound/Mammogram - to include ADH, LCIS; and all of this could have played a significant role in recurrence. I did not have chemo due to low ONCO DX score of 10. I was 52.5 years of age at diagnosis.