Hi everyone, 

I've just been diagnosed with Stage 1b Grade 2 TNBC and am scheduled to go in for lumpectomy and sentinal node biopsy next week. It was detected on my first screening mammogram (i'm 54) and is only small (7mm) so have been told that its likely that it hasn't spread to the lymph nodes.Likely. Quite possibly my most hated word at the moment. Not hasn't, likely hasn't, but not definitely hasn't. I'm trying to get my husband to see how this word guarentees nothing, but in his eyes 'likely hasn't' means 'definitely hasn't' and for me to be worried or even think or mention anythng other than this scenario makes me 'negative' and looking on the black side. I know its because he's scared too, but I've always found talking about my fears lessens them somehow, and as I've never been an ostrich, I don't feel that head in the sand is a particularly healthy way to approach these things - at least for me. I would like to ask if anyone else on here has had a similar sized TNBC tumour and what their treatment and outcome was? I know we are all different, but it would help me process whats going on in my head. Thanks in advance :)