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Topic: Post Treatment Care
Posted By: CrystalAR
Subject: Post Treatment Care
Date Posted: Jan 29 2016 at 11:30am
I have been reading posts on this forum throughout my treatment.  I was diagnosed with my TNBC last March and finished 16 weeks of chemo (TAC with carboplatin), had a right radical mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection (20 nodes removed, 4 positive), pCR, and 30 rads (last rad 1/5/16).

My question is:  what is the standard of care for successfully treated TNBC survivors?  

My onc has described post treatment care for me as qtrly check ups with cancer blood screens (these were normal even when I was first diagnosed), and no scans unless there is a physical manifestation of potential cancer.  I am concerned for recurrence and/or mets.  I am a single mother raising my 11 year old son and want to do everything I can to see him to adulthood - including further treatment if cancer begins to grow in my body again.

This does not jive with things I have seen and heard from other breast cancer survivors, but I don't know any other women who have been treated specifically for TNBC.

For those still active in this forum, would you please tell me what your post treatment care has entailed?

Thank you to anyone who will share your post treatment story.

Crystal
dx TNBC Stage III 3/19/15 age 45, AC x 4, T x 12 + carboplatin every 3 weeks, radical rt mastectomy & ALND 9/8/15, pCR, 30 rads completed 1/5/16.



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