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Choosing my treatment
Hi, on New Year's Eve I found a lump in breast. Since then, I have been diagnosed with early breast cancer and have had the lump removed through breast conserving surgery. Surgery went well - clear m...
Hi Paula
Yeah, hair loss isn't really an issue for me. I thought I'd try the cooling cap thing but if it doesn't work or I hate the feel of it, so be it.
You are right about choosing the treatment with the best possible outcome and my immediate choice of treatment was the one that improved the chances of the cancer not recurring (FEC/T). But then it was explained that that treatment carried the risk of causing long term heart damage.
So the choice is, play it safer with four rounds of TC but slightly greater chance of cancer recurring or choose the FEC/T course with the risk of causing heart damage but improving my chances of the cancer not recurring.
I think my brain is going to explode.