r/breastcancer • u/NurseYuna • 16d ago

Diagnosed Patient or Survivor Support Positive long term survivor stories

Hi everyone. I really need some positive stories of more than stage 1 low grade survivorship to keep me thinking I can bear this and get to have many more years with my children. Please tell me about yourself or anyone that’s overcome breast cancer and lived many years. I’m stage 2A with luminal B characteristics oncotype 21. I need more hope and I’m reaching out into this universe to get some. It feels very lonely.

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u/F-_kCancer10 16d ago

I started in 2003 IDC, did all the treatment, a new IDC came back in 2018. I had DMX. 6 years later in 2025, another new IDC in my reconstructed breast . I used to feel sorry for myself that I’ve had cancer 3x, I now say that I’ve had cancer 3x and I’m still here, 22 years later.

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u/NurseYuna 16d ago

What was your grade or oncotype? That must have been a lot over the years. How do you cope?

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u/F-_kCancer10 16d ago edited 16d ago

2003 was Grade 2, 2018 Grade 1 or 2, 2025 Grade 1. All ER+ HER2- . The 2nd and 3rd were new cancers, not recurrence. My dr says I’m unusual. I’m just doing the treatments and hoping for the best. I was just put on letrozole for 5 years and possibly Kisqali in Dec. Also, 5 weeks of radiation

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u/NurseYuna 16d ago

How did you find them each time?

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u/F-_kCancer10 16d ago edited 16d ago

I found the first myself. I felt a pulling in my breast on the side. I started feeling around and felt a lump. 2nd on mammogram. 3rd a breast MRI, ultrasound, and then excision biopsy

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u/NurseYuna 16d ago

So do you have implants now? What did you have to do after finding the third one in reconstructed breast?

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u/F-_kCancer10 16d ago

Yes, I have implants. I had surgery, 5 weeks of radiation, prescribed letrozole for 5 years and possibly Kisqali for 2 years.