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Scan or not to Scan - Post treatment
I have now completed treatment and I’m on Letrazole. I had IDC grade 3 ER + clear margins, 2x lymph nodes with adenocarcinoma and High grade DCIS - margins involved. I had 3x FEC and 1 out of 3 Doce...
@kmakm I too really struggle with this. I get it from an over exposure to radiation point of view and a public health point of view with a cost vs benefit scenario. However the point I try to argue with my onc is, if I knew I had mets now versus 8 months when symptoms might develop, well for someone of my age that's significant time to do the things I want to do before I passed.
Its an absolute mind f*** isn't it.
Genetics told me if I came back with a mutation called TP53 I would have scored an annual full body MRI; I didn't come back with it but I was almost hoping for it in that weird way, knowing I'd get scanned regularly.
Its an absolute mind f*** isn't it.
Genetics told me if I came back with a mutation called TP53 I would have scored an annual full body MRI; I didn't come back with it but I was almost hoping for it in that weird way, knowing I'd get scanned regularly.