Aromatase Inhibitors: To use or not to use?
Having recently had a lumpectomy on a 10mm, oestrogen receptive, invasive lobular carcinoma where lymph nodes were negative to cancer, I'm now faced with the decision of whether or not to take the ar...
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My attitude is that if a tretment is offered one should try it. My mother was not a candidate for Herceptin which would have meant she'd been someone with advanced BC to go on the trial. She died a year b4 I was diagnosed @50.
Mine being an aggressive triple positive one meant lymph nodes were removed 5 infected, radiation occurred to 4 places including axilla and I went through a chemo induced menopause and now have Lymphoedema. I was not a candidate for tamoxifen as I'd already had a DVT 15 years b4 BC surgery. I have been on Arimidex for 5 years this month and hope to continue for another 5 if that is what my oncologist wants now that the results of the long term trial are out.
My grandmother died of leukemia @68, another of possible ovarian cancer after war time deprivation in europe; 2 great aunts lived to 95-96 while Mum survived 26 years after an uneccessary mastectomy with no further treatment given. (My surgeon would have given her a lumpectomy the first year he was operating)
I am glad I have had all th treatment I have had and expect to live a long and full life,
Carol