Ok...gotta be a geek...but COOL! using the Cyberknife!!!
:)
Glad to hear you have a good plan of attack. I hope it all goes well. We are not alone in this horrible venture (pregnancy with breast cancer). I have a friend still undergoing a new treatment at Houston's MD Anderson center for metastatic breast cancer. She was stage 2 at ~30 weeks, did a lumpectomy, chemo, then a mastectomy. During radiation they found it had spread to her chest wall and also a spot on her lungs...although I think they may have now reconsidered that spot on her lungs to be something else (brain doesn't work after all that chemo and pregnancy!). She's having a tough time like you.
I'm so very thankful that at this writing I'm still clear. I go back in June for another checkup. There's actually a website called PregnantWithCancer.com that deals with pregnancy and cancer simultaneously. It's pretty scary to see how many women are dealing with this very thing. It's been a strange blessing in disguise (for me at least).
Good luck to you and I hope your treatments are successful. Don't give up hope, though. And write back if you want to chat.
Lisa
Sorry to hear about another young woman diagnosed while expecting a new life.
Although, for me it brings a little comfort to know I was not alone when I was DX. I was 8 months post partum when I found the lump.
You are the first person I have been in contact with who shares that commonality.
As far as my plan currently.... I had an Axillary Node Dissection, Ovaries removed since the tumors were 100% ER Positive, her 2 Negative. I had a procedure called the Cyberknife that targets just the Tumor on my spine. I have begun radiation on my left chest wall and am on Femara and receive Zometa once a month. I will be scanned every 3 months.
I was pregnant at the time of diagnosis, found my lump while breastfeeding our first child. I had stopped breastfeeding barely 4 weeks before the biopsy. My sentinal node was positive (1 of 3)...remainder nodes were all negative.... this was done at the time of the mastectomy a week after the biopsy, 5+ cm tumor, ER/PR+, HER2-. They found DCIS in the remaining breast tissue that was removed.
I'm almost 3 years from diagnosis, 2 years from last chemo treatment.
I do know that my surgeon was reluctant to do a biopsy during breastfeeding and we were not willing to stop breastfeeding so quickly, although 3 months later I had no choice as I was pregnant again (I had trouble keeping a pregnancy).
Sorry to hear about your recurrance, what is the plan of attack now?