@nataliehope . Just discovered this thread.

Diagnosed with HER2 negative în August during ultrasound and later biopsy. Right after ultrasound I started to change my diet radically, research about alternative treatments. Not only I changed my diet, but started to take Chinese herbs tea via Dr. Wong, blue scorpion venom via Dr. Chang, had two IV with vitamin C, fasting with citric juice three days in a row with grapefruit, lemons and oranges, water fasting, exercise every day. Ultimately a lot of prayers through my friends, myself. Always loved prayers, but this year Saint Nektarios and Elderly Ephraim are in my heart. Ephraim built 18 monasteries in Canada and US.

Had unilateral mastectomy on November 14th. No pain. Just when they removed my two drains. Chose aesthetic flat surgery. The 6 lymph nodes were negative.

My MRI showed my tumors 2. 6 cm and 1. 0 cm. After the surgery, they did biopsy on my tumors. They were much smaller. The big one was 1. 6 cm and 0.9 the small one. I believe that they shrunk due to my alternative treatment before surgery from August to November.

I chose the mastectomy as I had two tumors in my left breast, multifocal tumors. Also I have two children, almost 12 and almost 10.

Waiting for my Oncotype DX test to see if I need chemotherapy. Meeting the oncologist on January 4th. My breast surgeon thinks that I will not need chemotherapy, but Oncotype will have the answer. I have a feeling that the oncologist will recommend the estrogen stopper hormone therapy which I am not sure if I will do it or go on alternative treatment.