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Wow what a week! kept myself very busy so as to not dwell on my test results. All clear thank goodness just some fluid around the mastectomy scar . Although I do have some inflamation and infection i...
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Hi Hillary, I shall certainly keep the Dragons Abreast Club in mind and shall check them out at some stage soon. I went to my oncologist today and did in fact ask about a preventative mastectomy. She said to me "you should have had it done before you had radiotherapy!", well at that stage I hadn't given it much thought, I just wanted the lump out asap. Since then I have given it a lot of thought. She then asked me if I thought that having a mastectomy meant I wouldn't get cancer again, my answer was "well not in my breasts anyway". She said that I could always get it in another organ but given that my BC was picked up very early, it hadn't spread at all, and that I was to be on Arimidex for five years, the likelihood of another cancer appearing was low. So I came away a bit confused but not totally defeated. I feel that it is my decision should I decide to go down that path whether it be the right one or the wrong one for other people. I just feel I would have some control over whether or not BC might return in my boobs, If I don't have boobs then it is one place less to stress about and I am a bit of a stress head.. So I shall discuss it with my surgeon in two weeks time for another opinion.
Dale xx