Oncotype Test

Push for the ancotype. My ancotype was done with my very first biopsy and my summer was only 1.8 cm very very tiny. They did every single test they suppose to. The oncotype will give you the % of the effectiveness of chemo will be in your particular cancer. Also the % of the likelihood for reoccurrance.

Mine was 1.9 mm and was told so small they couldn’t do an onco test. I also had DCIS grade 1 4cm.
You should be able to get a paper copy of your report( so hard to read though)I made a notebook and filed everything

Thanks. I think @angiemal mentioned that they don’t test if they are less than 5mm, which is what my onco said as well. Mine is 2mm, so very little. My onco said even if we try to submit it it will get kicked out of eligibility.
I’ll continue researching as well.

I was not unhappy to miss having chemo, because, IMHO, all of the "protective" things I have done post the surgery have been worse than the surgery itself. I was not offered any test that would involve additional expense, which, according to my radiologist, was the hallmark of the Illinois oncologist. Perhaps I can give you another story of his methods involving a woman I knew well, Diana. I had all 3 of her daughters as students in 7th and 8th grade and then hired them to work for me at my business. Diana had the same oncologist (not very many to select from in this rural area) and was fine for many years when it reoccurred. She felt something was "off" in her body, but our mutual oncologist refused to run the test that would either prove or disprove her fears. Her daughters, who wanted to try to save her life, wanted to take her to the Mayo Clinic. He said, to them, "Why do you want to take her there? I interned there. I know everything they know." And he refused to give up her tumor (on ice from her original surgery), which is against the law. When the girls continued to request all information so that they could take their mother elsewhere, he became irritated and said, "I need therapy after I talk to you three." He finally ran the test, which determined that her cancer had recurred and traveled to her pancreas. He bombared her with intensive chemo, which simply made her weak and worse. She died in hospice. When they heard he was MY doctor, they said, "He killed our mother."

I was not unhappy to miss having chemo, because, IMHO, all of the "protective" things I have done post the surgery have been worse than the surgery itself. I was not offered any test that would involve additional expense, which, according to my radiologist, was the hallmark of the Illinois oncologist. Perhaps I can give you another story of his methods involving a woman I knew well, Diana. I had all 3 of her daughters as students in 7th and 8th grade and then hired them to work for me at my business. Diana had the same oncologist (not very many to select from in this rural area) and was fine for many years when it reoccurred. She felt something was "off" in her body, but our mutual oncologist refused to run the test that would either prove or disprove her fears. Her daughters, who wanted to try to save her life, wanted to take her to the Mayo Clinic. He said, to them, "Why do you want to take her there? I interned there. I know everything they know." And he refused to give up her tumor (on ice from her original surgery), which is against the law. When the girls continued to request all information so that they could take their mother elsewhere, he became irritated and said, "I need therapy after I talk to you three." He finally ran the test, which determined that her cancer had recurred and traveled to her pancreas. He bombared her with intensive chemo, which simply made her weak and worse. She died in hospice. When they heard he was MY doctor, they said, "He killed our mother."

Push for the ancotype. My ancotype was done with my very first biopsy and my summer was only 1.8 cm very very tiny. They did every single test they suppose to. The oncotype will give you the % of the effectiveness of chemo will be in your particular cancer. Also the % of the likelihood for reoccurrance.

My ILC tumor was only a 1.2 cm size and the Oncotype test was done without me asking. Based on that information, I have ruled out chemo as well as AI. I am doing the Fast forward radiation of 5 days only since I only need to worry about local recurrence not distant.