My new stat sheet is my pathology report. Understanding your pathology report is vital and is used often in the cancer world. Instead of asking someone you just met about where they work or what their favorite hobbies are you ask them about their staging, whether or not their estrogen positive, their treatment and all the other cancer lingo.
This is my stat sheet:
My tumor was roughly 1.2 cm
I'm stage 1
No lymph node involvement
ID or invasive ductal carcinoma
7/9 on Bloom-Richardson
Intermediate nuclear grade
ER/PR positive
Her2 positive
Try out these links to help decode all this:
http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/translating.html
http://www.y-me.org/publications/generalpubs/read_pathology_report.pdf
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