We go in for a final appointment before chemo to discuss just what we'll take and what the effects will be. Just as we're getting started we discover the path report from surgery #4 showed us as having a 2+ score on the ICH test for the HER2 receptor. Oh shit. Our first path report showed us as being HER2- and we rejoiced because HER2+ tumors have a worse prognosis.
This ends our dicussion of chemo treatments, we can't pick one until we know HER2 status. We go home and read that 2+ ICH score is ambiguous and they must do a "FISH" test to tell for sure. The next day we discover the FISH test was already done (but not not entered in the computer at Mayo) and we are indeed HER2 negative.
It sure made for a horrible night though.
We have a friend who is getting considerably more chemotherapy because she is HER2+. In all other respects we are almost the same (stage II, node negative, ER+, PR+, about 40 years old). We sure did not want to hear that was our future.
And it all delays us yet another week.
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