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Recent Research on Chemotherapy For Triple Negative Breast Cancer
I was wondering if anyone knew how to access the recent research from Europe which advises that women who only had 6 cycles of chemo only survived up to 5 years after original diagnosis and women who...
Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with BC late last year. 1 was DCIS and the other DCIS which had broken out (size 17 mm) I opted for mastectomy and implant reconstruction. Pathology came back as triple negative BC and I’ve now gone to have full body and skeletal scans. I’m going to have the Axillary Clearance not sure when as the Sentinal Node showed cancer. My doctor has talked about many options but is getting discussed at multidisciplary team meeting next week to guage best way forward. Problem is if I need radiotherapy at some stage, it will wreck the implant and it will need to be removed, followed by tissue reconstruction. I’m hoping (given my surgery was so successful) that radiotherapy won’t be necessary. I am realistic about chemo. Any thoughts??