Punky44 wrote:My mom got a verbal prelim report of her pathology from surgery—with her 8 rounds of FolFox and short course radiation, her tumor shrunk from a T3 at diagnosis to a T2 and her lymph nodes went from “more than 4” suspicious nodes to 0/38 cancerous nodes affected. They told her that her pathological Stage is a Stage 1. I know I’ve seen it said that you’ll always still be the Stage you were at diagnosis (Stage 3 for her) but getting “downstaged” is a good prognostic indicator, correct?
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