Do I have to?????
Hi All,
I had an Autumn of AC chemo, then a winter of Taxol, and will be having a Spring of radiotherapy. I have read all the info I can about radiotherapy, and still have one question which I am h...
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They really are valid views, radiation is so much easier I found than Chemo hands down. When I had radio 5yrs ago, coupled with a lumpectomy and 4yrs of tamoxifen that was aggressive treatment so they said for DCIS. But I had a recurrence at 4yrs??? inspite of all that?? For me Chemo was a much harder choice to make to do, not that I really had a choice. Everyone is different, I just found the entire radiation treatment so much better to deal with than chemo.
I remember my Oncologist saying to me after I completed Chemo, that as Id had radiation, chemo was only option left and Arimidex was basically putting a stop on the door, the cream on the treatment so to speak, to stop it returning. I guess we are guided by them, the professionals, it doesnt make our decisions any easier.
Just when I thought mine was all behind me, I am now pushed for a mastectomy to safeguard myself. After 5yrs and 2 lots of Breast Cancer I havent been able to face another thing to do with it all...mentally it all caught up. So a decision will be made in October it seems. Its not something I want to do, but feel its my last option of eradicating it for good now. Thats the only reason I want the surgery done and so I can move on.
None of it is easy, no matter our journeys, but its lovely to have a place to come and chat.
Hugs
Melinda