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    Posted: Apr 14 2017 at 10:31am
Dx June 06 stage 1 at age 46, no nodes, clean margins, Ki-67 at 54, Bilateral Mastectomy, 4 rounds AC, complete hysterectomy Aug O7. Mother and Grandmother both died of breast cancer dx in their 30's.
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"About half the women were followed for less than 3 years and the other half of the women were followed for more than 3 years. The researchers recorded how long the women lived without a recurrence of invasive breast cancer, called invasive disease-free survival.

During follow-up, more women treated with the TC regimen had a recurrence than women treated with TaxAC:

  • 179 women treated with TC had a recurrence
  • 121 women treated with TaxAC had a recurrence

This difference was statistically significant, which means that it was likely due to the difference in chemotherapy regimens and not just because of chance.

Overall, 4-year invasive disease-free survival rates were:

  • 90.7% for the TaxAC regimen
  • 88.2% for the TC regimen

The results strongly suggest that the anthracycline regimen is slightly better than the regimen without an anthracycline for women diagnosed with early-stage, HER2-negative breast cancer with a high risk of recurrence."

  • For women with triple-negative disease (hormone-receptor-negative and HER2-negative) with no cancer in the lymph nodes, the TaxAC regimen reduced recurrence risk by 2.5% more than the TC regimen.
  • For women with triple-negative disease with one to three positive nodes, the TaxAC regimen reduced recurrence risk by 10.9% more than the TC regimen.
  • For women with triple-negative disease with four or more positive nodes or women with triple-negative disease with one or more positive nodes, the TaxAC regimen reduced recurrence risk by about 11% more than the TC regimen.
DX IDC TNBC 6/09 age 49, Stage 1,Grade 3, 1.5cm,0/5Nodes,KI-67 48%,BRCA-,6/09bi-mx, recon, T/C X4(9/09)
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From everything I have read, and it's a lot, the "A" Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) is instrumental in killing cancer cells, my wife can't have any more chemo that includes Adriamycin because it can cause heart muscle damage over a certain lifetime limit.
wife: IDC/Lobular Stage2B 2008 lumpectomy/TAC+rads
TNBC Stage 3A/w/metaplastic/squamous Nov2015 Carboplatin-Gemzar chemo/masectomy Taxolchemo+rads 4-16
PET scan stable 9-2016/ 1-2017
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