Cancer Check Up

Just had my 6 month check up with Dr Bachrach.  I have been a little stressed due to my 5th anniversary of my diagnosis approaching and in addition, I have a friend, Vicki Thompson, that has breast cancer too.  I talked to Dr Bachrach about Vicki.

I met Vicki at a boutique I did in the Spring of 2009.  Her story is a different than mine in some ways.  The similarities are: we both are triple negative...which means, that we are Her2 neu negative and ER/PR negative.  For those of you that are not familiar with the terms, this means that the protein around the cells are negative that cause the cells to grow faster and our cancer does not need hormones to grow.  In other words, our cancer is VERY AGGRESSIVE and doesn't need anything to help it to grow, it just grows on its own.  It also has a higher recurrence rate! Yet, our cancer usually responds very well with chemo therapy.  However, in my friend, Vicki's case, her cancer has metastasized  and at this time it does not look good. I did visit with Vicki last week and I knew she was not doing well.  So as you can imagine this has brought the reality of breast cancer in the forefront of my mind again!

I shared Vicki's story with Dr Bachrach so he would understand more of my concerns.  He listened and did I feel better....NO!  But it was good to share and get it out.  Dr Bachrach proceeded to go over my labs and all my numbers look good and there are no signs of cancer!  Each month that goes by is another month closer to being "Cancer Free"!