I am so happy to be posting our first update is positive. We found out today that Kimberly's various scans (PET, chest MRI, brain MRI, CT, Mugga) all came back clean. This means that they believe the cancer is localized in her breast and left side lymph nodes. This came out of our first appointment with the oncologist.
What kind of cancer does Kimberly have? We were a bit hesitant to post this. Initially they identified it as Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. However, there were still some unexplained symptoms and K and I pushed for more testing. The testing revealed that she also has Inflammatory Breast Cancer. This is a whole different thing than most other forms of breast cancer. It is a fast growing and spreading type of cancer and I will refrain from saying more. However, the fact that it seems we caught it early is huge. This also sped things up a bit, with a bit of gentle urging, begging, @ss kissing and plain old pushyness.
With IBC, you get best results if they treat with chemo before surgery. So tomorrow K has outpatient surgery to put a port in her chest, then her first Chemo starts afterward.
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