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Location of tumor: Anyone had breast tumor in lower inner quadrant?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 26, 2023 | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
I was diagnosed with BC right side in the lower Quadrant at 6 O’clock position but based on my “bird beak” deformity I’d say it was 6-7 O’clock. I’m now at 5 years and will end my Letrozole in 13 days.
I had a lumpectomy but I believe the term is Quadrantectomy, because there was a lot of breast parenchyma removed (6.6 cm by 5.5 cm by 1.5cm). I had a 9mm IDC tumor grade 2, with clean margins. At 60 years of age (now 65), I was okay with it. I had 30 radiation treatments (5days a week standard routine). I was ER /PR positive and HER2 , hence the 5 years of letrozole.
Radiation fibrosis and the shrinkage makes it about 1/2 the size of my other breast but it’s okay. I weighed 101 lBs on the day of surgery and I weigh 97 lBs now. I had small boobs to start with but it’s not really that noticeable with clothes on and because it is in the inframammary fold I can wear a bathing suit.
Had great doctors through out and I read everything I could about BC. I do know the lower inner pole has a higher reoccurrence rate but I’m hopeful.
I do have osteopenia and letrozole exacerbates this.
Took alendronate for bone density.
Good luck to all of you on your journey!!
Lgay
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Thank you for sharing your journey. I had a 1.8cm ILC removed in Nov 2022 and finished radiation Jan 2023 and have been on Letrozole since Feb. My tumor (lucky find as very dense and lobular) was right of nipple so I guess not lower quadrant but can you share your surveillance scan schedule. This October (a year since last mammo that found lobular cancer) I will have a diagnostic mammo but hoping to have a supplemental scan as an MRI (ultrasound didn't pick up much at all) as well as inquiring about any liquid biopsies or blood work. Good luck...I too have osteopenia and worry about impact of Letrozole - all the biophosphates scare me...xoxo
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I had my 1.5 cm breast tumor at 6 O'clock. It was glued to my chest wall. Because my PCP would only give me screening mammograms on my very dense breasts, who looked like white snowballs on the pictures, my right breast was full of small sites of cancer, and I had to have a simple masectomy, by the time I could feel a tumor. I am ER, PR, positive that makes me more prone to cancer coming back to my bones, namely rib bones, I was calmly told by my oncologist. She told me there isn't any test to catch it in time. I am Stage 1, Grade 2. I was put on Tamoxifen because of osteoporosis. I can only take 10 mg. And supplement with . indole-3-carbinol. My cancer center is the best in my state. It is ranked 40th in cancer treatment. I can't go to another state because of my Medicaid. I am proactive and do everything I can. I am given an exam of my masectomy site, twice a year, and a diagnostic mammogram once a year. It has been 3 years since my surgery. I fill out a questionnaire asking me if I am losing weight, have pain in my liver, lungs, ribs, spine. How is this acceptable monitoring in 2023?