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Age: 40-49
Nancy
breast cancer
stage three

About the same time as I was experiencing another stressful personal situation my mammogram showed normal and the ultra sound was misread to be a benign 1 cm cyst. I wasn't comfortable with the size the radiologist said it was because it felt like a small egg. I went to a surgeon and when he couldn't get any fluid from the "cyst" he scheduled a biopsy. It showed a 2.5 cm tumor. I went a saw another surgeon in a bigger city where I came from and a mastectomy was done. It ended up being a 5.5 cm tumor with 9 out of 16 positive lymph nodes. They did get clean margins and I was er/pr+. I had 6 rounds of cytoxin, F5U and epirupensin (sp) followed for 33 rounds of radiation. It has been a extremely stressful time not only dealing with the cancer. I find out 1/3 if I'm in remission. My biggest fears are the stats. I have a 50/50 chance of surviving 5 years..... that terrifies me. During Thanksgiving I found myself wondering if this would be my last. There are times that I feel like I'm going to kick this cancer's butt and other times, total fear.

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