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50/50 on chemo - what to do
Hello im new on here and would like to ask for your thoughts i have grade 2 invasive ductal cancer progesterone and eostrogen positive breast cancer lumpectomy and SNB completed 31/7 2 positive se...
Arggh that's a tough one!
I had similar outcomes from surgery (left-side mastectomy) - sentinel node was positive but ALND came back as all clear. I wanted to throw everything we could at it now while I'm relatively
young (45) & healthy (besides the C) to reduce the chances of it
coming back later. Add to that, my cancer was detected in the lympho-vascular system on the breast so I went ahead with chemo to make sure no little microscopic bits made an escape.
Did your oncologist go through the numbers with you - rates of survival based on the specific findings in your pathology and the different combination of treatments? That can help (if your a stats/numbers kind of a person) to make that decision. It sucks as you just want someone to give you the one true answer :)
Hugs to you!