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@colleenyoung

Hi @constantinos. You may be interested in the experiences shared in this related discussion:
- Just diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/just-diagnosed-with-trip-negative-breast-cancer/

Prognosis is a difficult question for fellow members and patients to answer. Your wife's oncologist can give you better information about your wife's specific prognosis related to her breast cancer diagnosis as well as personal factors like her medical history, health status, tumor response to treatment, age, etc.

I found this general (and hopeful) information in a study "The outcome of selected apocrine triple negative breast cancer patients is excellent..."
- Prognosis of selected triple negative apocrine breast cancer patients who did not receive adjuvant chemotherapy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7424227/

I completely understand the question and the desire to know what lays ahead. Has your wife completed chemotherapy treatment? How is she doing now? How are you doing?

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Thank you Colleen for the link to the article. I had a similar apocrine feature ILC tumor that was TNBC diagnosed 12/22 plus an hormone driven IDC in the second breast and I went to Mayo in Rochester for treatment. The tumors were both stage 1a with low Ki67 scores, 5% on the TNBC and 13% on the IDC. I had a bilateral mastectomy and my oncologist at Mayo and the tumor board there decided on no chemo for me. Seeing the study you provided was very helpful. It made me feel that my husband and I made the best decision to go to Mayo for treatment. We live in Michigan so it’s quite a drive but worth it. Thank you d1ana also and sending healing and wellness wishes to you and constantinos and his wife❤️