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Carols
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8 years ago

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...
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primek
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8 years ago
@CherylMcI  I believe if less than 3 nodes after clearance then radiotherapy might not be needed. They will change your implant over if needing radiotherapy as necessary. They may suggest a tissue expander slightly larger than you implant due to shrinkage before  radio but that's up to your surgeon. Probably it would only be the auxillary that they would be targeting. You won't know until path back and discuss with your team.