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chemo or no chemo
Hi everyone, I am new to this list. I am 60 and was diagnosed with breast cancer (ER+, PR-, HER2-, Grade 3, Stage 2) and had a mastectomy a couple of months ago. My oncologist recommends chemoth...
Hi @Emeraldgreen, if it's the long term that's particularly concerning to you, I'd take possible side effects from chemo over a possible recurrence of the cancer any day. There's no guarantees in life but having recently had a recurrence 17 years after treatment for early breast cancer (including chemo), I take some comfort in knowing I did everything possible at the time to knock it on the head. Yes, chemo is awful but the cancer coming back is crushing :(