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Triple negative - newly diagnosed and looking for your experiences
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 10, 2025 | Replies (24)Comment receiving replies
Thank you at Delfina three did you also have to have radiation and surgery
and did you have? Triple negative and one breast or both and if you had
surgery, did you do full mastectomy or lumpectomy?
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@roxy66
I had TNBC stage 2 tumor was 5.8cm which in canada is 2B
I had chemo first then surgery. I had a masectomy because was close to chest wall and because it was TNBC lobular I thought this was the best for me. I had it in left breast. I had to have radiation after surgery because it was a large tumor. I had 3 weeks of radiation.
After that I was on Xeloda because chemo shrunk my tumor by half which was good, so I was on that for 9 months.
They also fave me Zometa infusions every 6 months for 3 years.
I was 67 at time of diagnosis. Helps with bone loss and they believe reoccurrencecof cancer possibly to bones.
This was the canada protocol so yours may be different.
Take care