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[>>When I was diagnosed, they really couldn't tell the extent]
[until they could do the surgery, and then I had the surgery, ]
[and that changed everything. ]
[After I had my surgery, then I learned a lot more about the type of cancer.]
[A lot of what they discovered, even at that point, they were talking to me]
[about being triple-negative. ]
[Because the tumor was so small, ]
[it was not recommended for me to have radiation or chemotherapy. ]
[The surgery wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. ]
[I was trying to keep an open mind about chemo. ]
[What the triple-negative means is that there's 3 factors that they look at. ]
[Two of them are pretty closely related. ]
[It's whether or not you have a lot of estrogen receptors. ]
[If you do, you're ER-positive, and after your surgery they can give you tamoxifen,]
[and that kind of starves off the breast cancer cells. ]
[After the chemo, I saw the oncologist, and she said, ]
["Okay. We've done everything we can do at this point."]
[And then the third one is a protein called HER2, and if they]
[find out that's positive, there's another drug they can give women after their surgery,]
[and that will starve off and kill those breast cancer cells, too. ]
[When you're triple-negative, you can't take any of the drugs. ]
[So that threw me into the range of chemo and radiation. ]
