Interesting, I was told I had an 8% chance of recurrence with a 14 on the oncotype test. I like your odds, better. I know that they have done some more research with the oncotype with a study called TailorX which has shown that the oncotype is even a better predictor than they originally thought, I wonder if that is where they got your odds. Also, I had IDC stage 2A, so maybe that is part of it too.

Thanks for the info although i'm very senstive to meds and usually get every side effect there is just have to see how i do

I ditto Jacinthe; in my two year experience with Tam I've found the side effects reasonably easy to deal with. One thing my prescribing Onco failed to tell me ( which I found by researching and brought up at my GYN appt) is that the increased risk of endometrial (uterine) cancer during Tamoxafin use can be easily monitored by sticking an ultrasound probe up you yearly...count me in! My gyn will monitor the thickness of my endometrium and look for fibroids-another potential side effect-annually.

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I had A double masectomy with Dcis in one breast and a idc tumor , stage 2a in the other . My onco type was a 9, so my onco thought chemo would do more harm than good. I'm postmennopausal and take armidex religiously.

@A MyBCTeam Member 2B is still early stage, even into the 3 range as my doctor explained it to me is still early. I guess because the treatments are so effective that even in stage 3 for most cases a cure can be had. The question is how aggressive is the cancer that you have. You can kind of tell if you know your Ki67%. Under 10% is considered low, Then there is kind of grey area as to what is borderline, some go up to 20, others to 30%, I was 18%, so I am borderline, but some people have a very high Ki67%, which is more aggressive, if you have a high percentage than your oncotype is going to come back in the higher range anyway. It could be that the features of your cancer don't really look aggressive, maybe very high hormone receptor percentages, especially progesterone, which tends to equate to a less aggressive cancer, and the Ki67 make the Dr think that maybe you have something that is slow growing so tamoxifen might be enough to keep you cancer free. Chemo only kills fast growing cells, breast cancer doesn't always grow fast, which is why they are doing chemo less and less. Not a good treatment if it plows through your system, but misses the cancer cells because they aren't dividing fast enough. I was told that my cancer had probably been growing for 6-10 years before it was caught. So it took it that long to get to 3.2cm, a pretty decent sized tumor, but considering how long it took to get to that size it appears it was not that aggressive.

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