I'll bet that's the first place all of our thoughts go to when we're diagnosed - isn't it? Then immediately we think of our children, families, the people we love.
But there are many survivors including people who were diagnosed twice and survivors of all stages. I met a woman at the oncologist's office who had many more positive lymph nodes and was still doing well a decade later.
The thing is, why didn't your doctors catch this other tumor earlier? It's only been two years since you were treated. And - you're right - it appears that neither the tamoxifen nor the chemo must have worked on this other tumor. Did the oncologist say you needed a different type of chemo/treatment now?
Is the oncologist you're seeing a BC specialist?
My prayers are with you, Shimmer1. Mine was stage 2, by the way, with 2 positive nodes and a positive margin.
Also, Shimmer1, I thought you’d like to see this blog kept by Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin during her fight against stage 3, triple-negative BC:
http://jengriffinblog.blogspot.com/
She was only around 40 years old with young children at diagnosis. She had one 9 cm tumor and a second tumor. She’s still doing well 5 years later!