Hi Craig - First of all, I'm sorry you're both having to go through this. Thankfully, the majority of women with breast cancer successfully go through treatment, and go on to live long and healthy lives.

First, please read our Guide to Understanding Your Pathology Report. You'll find that it'll enable you to interpret most of what you've written above. Basically, it sounds like you wife has a very common diagnosis, and thankfully, a "good" diagnosis - in other words, the cancer isn't aggressive, and will respond to hormone therapy. It's always good to have NO lymph node involvement, but it sounds like your wife's is very, very minimal; latest thinking is that these "micrometastases" really don't influence long-term outcome.

The tough question will probably be whether or not to have chemo. Ask her doctor if she's a candidate for the Oncotype DX test, which predicts pretty accurately how much good chemo would do her. And, if you both feel on the fence about this decision, please read our post on choosing chemo; it may help you make up your mind.

Finally, check out our post on treatment, which has links to all kinds of useful information you'll both want to be researching in the weeks ahead.

Best of luck to you - and please come back here anytime with questions, or anything else. We're here to support you. Take care- PJH