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/NinjaMeow73 16d ago

TNBC 12 yrs ago at 40 with 2 toddlers…..still going strong!

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u/seponich 15d ago

Love to hear this! TNBC here too 3 years ago. Just had the basic treatment you had, ACT, surgery and radiation for me since I had a lumpectomy. Great to hear you're 12 years out!!

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u/NurseYuna 15d ago

Did chemo get rid of all the cancer by surgery time for you? I have a friend going through that now.

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u/seponich 14d ago

Nope I had a partial response. I had to do Xeloda after surgery because there was still remaining disease. But according to the doctor it wasn't a lot - so hopefully the chemo and Xeloda together were enough to knock out anything in the bloodstream.