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Meet with the Breast Surgeon

2/11/2014

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After the results on Monday… we were anxious to meet with the surgeon and learn more about next steps.
Today we met my nurse counselor Monique and also met with my surgeon, Dr. Judy Tjoe. They are both amazing and provided us tons of information about next steps. It was both comforting and scary to hear that a Mammogram screening likely wouldn't have caught this lump, and thankfully I did. We talked about the ABUS technology and Dr. Tjoe said I would have been a perfect candidate for that technology to locate the lump. We did have some good news in the session, when we got some more information on the pathology of the tumor: it's estrogen and progesterone receptor positive. What that means is I'm a great candidate for hormone therapy! Next test to confirm is there HER2. ~Liz


Note from Heather (by way of the Breast Cancer Classification article on Wikipedia): "ER+ cancer cells (that is, cancer cells that have estrogen receptors) depend on estrogen for their growth, so they can be treated with drugs to block estrogen effects (e.g. tamoxifen), and generally have a better prognosis." 
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