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Chemotherapy or natural?
Tomorrow I go to see oncologist for first time after surgery removal of invasive ductal carcinoma (12mm) and finding cancer in the only lymph node they found. Had CT Scans and bone scan yesterday so g...
Hi sandramj, so I'm not alone in thinking that the surgery & treatment would the answer, it is a shock to the system when you find it's not 100% foolproof, but I guess if it was no-one would ever have a recurrence, so I guess in hindsight it makes sense. Hormone responsive with a low Ki67 is a good out come tho,. and if only one node affected that's great!
Mine sounds very similar to yours, I had stage 2b grade 2 IDC with a few dcis on the other side. Hormone responsive with low Ki67 (5%) given the area affected I had a double mastectomy and radio, and am now on aromatise inhibitors, cos I'm still in my forties I have an ovarian inhibitor once a month to allow me to take the extremasine. 8 months on, it's been great, once you are through all the early treatment the hormone is just a daily tablet, and life starts to get back to normal. believe it or not you stop worrying about recurrence - at least you stop worrying as much, about recurrence once you get to the other side of all of this.
the others are right, research just released shows that 75% of all cancers are random.
Good luck with the journey, sounds like you have a good team and a great plan.
Aine
Mine sounds very similar to yours, I had stage 2b grade 2 IDC with a few dcis on the other side. Hormone responsive with low Ki67 (5%) given the area affected I had a double mastectomy and radio, and am now on aromatise inhibitors, cos I'm still in my forties I have an ovarian inhibitor once a month to allow me to take the extremasine. 8 months on, it's been great, once you are through all the early treatment the hormone is just a daily tablet, and life starts to get back to normal. believe it or not you stop worrying about recurrence - at least you stop worrying as much, about recurrence once you get to the other side of all of this.
the others are right, research just released shows that 75% of all cancers are random.
Good luck with the journey, sounds like you have a good team and a great plan.
Aine