What is STAS and does anyone have it?

Posted by lhatfield96 @lhatfield96, Apr 16 10:41am

Hi all. I had a wedge resection of a 9mm adenocarcinoma last year. Margins were clear (not real large kinda tight but clear) and no spread to lymph nodes. I am currently worrying about STAS that was present in the pathology report. Has anyone else had this and doing okay after your surgery? It's really confusing. Thank you for reading and responding if you can.

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bijou17 | @bijou17 | May 5 11:45pm

What is being done in your treatment? I’m curious as to what others are having done with STAS

mamajite | @mamajite | May 6 1:26am

In reply to @bijou17 "I did check with my genetic lady that I’m getting tested for a genetic heart condition..." + (show)

@bijou17 the genetic biomarker tests are expensive, but I hope there's a way you can do it. as far as your family doctor, you may have to push for what you need. you're an uncommon case and you probably know more about it than they do.

we didn't make it to Banff or Jasper yet. my family visited in April, but that year there was still too much snow for us to drive up safely from Calgary. we'll definitely come back. I want to see Lake Louise, too! I was sad to hear about the wildfire in Jasper. I live in Seattle - so just a couple hours south of the border.