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Artferret
8 years agoMember
@Lynn1148 I'm currently on just hormone therapy (2 lumpectomies, no lymph node involvement, been on letrozole for nearly seven months) and have been told I have minimal chance of the cancer returning. I am part of the EXPERT trial which is aiming to prove that radiation treatment is not necessary for early stage breast cancer. You get randomized into one of two groups, hormone only or radiation plus hormone. It is a ten year trial and you can back out at any time. Ask your medical team for more info and whether you would be a good candidate for taking part. You can have a gene assay test done, at great cost, to determine your risk of recurrence but if your score is under say 10, radiation is only going to halve the chance of cancer coming back. You really have to be guided by your med team and ask heaps of questions. The gene assay test is done as part of the EXPERT trial (at no cost to you) to determine your suitable for the trial (whether you are 'luminal A' type of BC and have a score of under 60) but as part of the trial parameters you do not find out your score and neither do the researchers. They may release that info down the track. I hope they do because the researchers would be getting a wealth of data that they could analyse along with everything else. I did say as much to my study co-coordinator and he thought along the same lines as me. Good luck with what decide to do.
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