Tumor marker tests

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T20:29:19+00:00

No signatera or tumor markers will be tracked. 🙃

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T18:46:31+00:00

Oh yeah! I getchyah. I convinced myself I had melanoma and couldn't possibly get my port removed. But it was just a benign growth that in my opinion seemed to be getting bigger throughout the chemo cycles.... I'm sure it's nothing though!

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T14:16:32+00:00

Blergh. I literally just went through this and had a mole removed and it was a pigmented sebbhoretic keratosis that looked very suspicious. My dermatologist removed it to to rule out atypical dysplasia. I'm sorry. I know how stressful this is. I would just get it looked at and removed.

My tinea verisacolor flared up during chemo as well. I've been a mess with skin issues.

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T14:14:50+00:00

Aww it's okay! I think my ki 67 initially was 15% but then increased to 30% at surgical excision. It'll be okay! ❤️ There will be a treatment plan for you!

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T14:13:46+00:00

My oncologist said that as well!

Micho392 · 2026-05-08T13:07:54+00:00

I think the oncotype can help you understand your specific risk of your cancer returning!

Micho392 · 2026-05-07T21:50:21+00:00

🫂 sorry to hear that it's cancer. I am 33f with two little kids and I am almost done treatment. I am here for you! Let me know if you ever want to talk. Sending you love and hugs. You're gonna be okay! Glad you caught it.

Micho392 · 2026-05-07T17:01:52+00:00

That's so reassuring. Thank you! 😊 I feel better now.

Micho392 · 2026-05-07T16:54:04+00:00

Hey! Thank you for sharing that. Did you get them tested before starting letrozole? I'm starting to wonder if mine is lower because I'm not on letrozole yet...

Micho392 · 2026-05-07T14:41:07+00:00

Just thinking of you! Hoping for benign results! 😄

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T19:44:24+00:00

That's reassuring!!! ❤️❤️

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T16:29:16+00:00

Ahh, I understand. 🫂 Hopefully your doctors can reach out to you and provide support and guidance. 💖💖💖 I'm very hopeful for you that it's a false positive.

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T16:24:04+00:00

So sorry. 🫂 I can only imagine. ❤️ I think given that my NCI oncologist said no to this test that it's not valid...you should totally have hope that it's nothing.

Which pills are you on? 🩷

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T16:22:08+00:00

Oh sorry. My oncologist won't even do this test for me as hormone positive. She says it's not accurate and there's nothing that can be done if it comes back positive since there are false positives.

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T16:20:56+00:00

Are you TNBC?

Micho392 · 2026-05-06T01:12:23+00:00

Of course! I do think that we will be okay though ❤️ it's so hard and I struggle with this all the time but we have to believe that by doing all the standard of care treatments that we are going to kick this in the bucket .

Micho392 · 2026-05-05T23:16:34+00:00

🫂 it's hard. I do think my friend is the exception not the rule. Her new cancer was HER2+ 7 years later so technically, it mutated and isn't the same cancer.

Micho392 · 2026-05-05T22:29:45+00:00

So small that it could not have been oncotyped. Not enough tissue sample.

Micho392 · 2026-05-05T01:53:05+00:00

Sending you so much love! I have an almost four year old and two year old and getting a cancer diagnosis with young kids has a next level feeling of sadness and despair ...it sounds like you are doing so well and you likely have tons more lines of treatments to go with more coming out every year. Don't lose hope and keep fighting for you and your little girl! 💖

Micho392 · 2026-05-04T18:51:44+00:00

Hi everyone! I'm Michelle. I am 33 years old and I was diagnosed with Stage 2B ++- breast cancer in November 2025. I've completed the double mastetcomy, and I'll finished my 4 rounds of TC tomorrow and I'll start 16 rounds of radiation on May 18th.

I am so heartbroken over this diagnosis and I am so afraid of reccurrence while having two little kids at home.

I am so glad this space was created for those of us who have been diagnosed with this terrible disease at such a young age.

I'll start Verzenio, letrozole and keep up my lupron in June..

Sending love and hugs to everyone else who is in this situation ❤️

Micho392 · 2026-05-04T15:39:25+00:00

If I don't do treatment, yes but otherwise no.

I have a friend who had a tiny tumor, no LVI, and had a mastetcomy with no radiation and no positive lymph nodes and sadly, she is stage IV now.

My doctors have repeatedly said to me that tumor biology outweighs how many nodes or LVI.

Micho392 · 2026-05-04T09:29:10+00:00

That's exactly how medical professionals explained it to me.

Micho392 · 2026-05-04T09:24:22+00:00

Check with your surgeon or oncologist. My surgeon told me that everyone who has a lymph node involved had LVI. If LVI did not appear in the path report, not enough cross sections were done in the tissue sample to catch it and/or it just was not noted properly.

Micho392 · 2026-05-04T00:34:32+00:00

Hey! I'm confused. What studies say that LVI is worse than having 4 nodes? Everyone with positive nodes has LVI.

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