What’s my treatment plan?

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Early stage breast cancer is killing a lot of women and we don’t exactly know why. Lymph-vascular invasion (LVI) can be an aspect of early stage BC pathology that can help provide more accurate staging and treatment / risk assessment. If you have LVI, please read the studies and ask your oncologist how it will factor in to your treatment and follow-up care. Ask everyone about it. If your oncologist isn’t concerned, ask more questions, maybe get a second opinion. If they are still unconcerned, MAKE SURE YOU REQUEST CT OR PET SCAN EVERY YEAR as follow-up. You may have to fight for it but it’s better than fighting for your life. I hope this helps you in some small way. The comments section is for you and the breast cancer community at large. Leave any helpful and productive comments or questions and I, along with anyone else are welcome to the conversation.

Sources:

Prognostic value of lymphovascular invasion in women with lymph node negative invasive breast carcinoma
A H S Lee et al. Eur J Cancer. 2006 Feb.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16377...

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Updates on Lymphovascular Invasion in Breast Cancer
Authors: Elisabetta Kuhn,1,2,* Donatella Gambini,3 Luca Despini,4 Dario Asnaghi,5 Letterio Runza,2 and Stefano Ferrero1,2

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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Lymphovascular invasion has a significant prognostic impact in patients with early breast cancer, results from a large, national, multicenter, retrospective cohort study
G Houvenaeghel et al. ESMO Open. 2021 Dec.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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Hello and welcome to No Cure For Happy, my breast cancer channel. Here I hope to provide a relatable and anecdotal first-hand account in somewhat real time of my experience with Breast Cancer. I hope to provide comfort to anyone who is fighting or has fought their own breast cancer battle so that you may feel supported as you chart your own course through this illness. Please reach out in the comments with any questions you may have.

2022: Unilateral left breast IDC grades II/III, high grade DCIS nuclear level III

ER/PR+, HER2-

Treatment: Bilateral mastectomy with sentinel node biopsy and immediate two-stage reconstruction using saline tissue expanders placed pre-pectorally (over the muscle) followed by saline injections and finally
pre-pec silicone implant exchange.

2024: Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer of the bones and lungs

Treatment: Lupron injection, anastrozole, Ribociclib; radx for bone pain as necessary.