Understand Your Pathology Report
Get past the jargon and know the facts about your diagnosis.
I am currently experiencing a recurrence of DCIS in the same breast, that supposedly was taken care of six years ago with a lumpectomy, radiation, and Tamoxifen.
Last week after having another sterotactic biopsy, the doctors dropped the bomb that my cancer is estrogen-negative not positive, as they assumed in 2002 a post-menopausal woman with DCIS would be. In 2004 they started testing. So for five years I took a drug that in my case was like taking a placebo! I asked my oncologist many times: "My cancer is estrogen-positive right? Always, she answered "Yes!"
I am writing this to any of you who might have had the same treatment for DCIS that I did and are on Tamoxifen. Ask your doctor if they really did test for estrogen-positive or negative. Tamoxifen is not a drug you want to take if it isn't helping.
I guess that is why they call it the "practice" of medicine.
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