Pathology is back - Good news!

My breast surgeon surprised me with a good news phone call today.  I was not expecting to hear from her until tomorrow or Wednesday at the earliest.   She provided the following information:

1. Both spots (5mm and 4mm in size) were cancer
2. Estrogen/Progesterone +   (I assume HER2- but I will confirm with the oncologist)
3. Clean margins were achieved in both spots
4. The tissue they removed looks to be the same as my old cancer
5. There was no breast tissue evident in either spot, which means they did a great job the first time.   (Not sure how the heck I got breast cancer in a spot with no breast tissue.  I plan to discuss with the oncologist.)

So everything points to no chemo but the oncologist will put a call into a doctor at Dana-Farber to ensure they are in agreement.   Given this is the same cancer again, I cannot imagine anyone saying yes to chemo but I'll be happy to have 2 hospitals agreeing on that point.

I think I will finally have my first post-surgery glass of wine tonight as this is the good news we really wanted this week!

Next week, we meet with the radiation oncologist at Dana-Farber in Milford to start planning for my radiation.  My breast surgeon commented last week that the radiation oncologist we met at Newton-Wellesley is super conservative when it comes to removing implants for radiation, as in she almost ALWAYS has them taken out.   The breast surgeon is confident Dana-Farber doctor will be in agreement with the decision we made to leave them in.