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Kathyjane
10 years agoMember
The Journey Begins
Last Monday 30th May, 2016, I attended my first Mammogram after picking up a brochure at the Dr's surgery whilst I was waiting to get my results for blood tests, just doing a checkup to see where my ...
jd48
10 years agoMember
With StartingnChemo depends how quickly you recover from then surgery as they need you to heal before they kill off your immune system...
Anything from 3 to 6 weeks... Mine took 6 weeks due to combination of a mild post op infection and several medical conditions they wanted the tread carefully arround but I know that they were getting antsy arround the 6 werk mark saying it was time to stop delaying...
With Radiation I have been advised looking at starting it probably 3 weeks post last Chemo session and looking at daily treatment for a period of 6 weeks... I also had no sentinal node involvement but the cancer was grade 3 and as did not have a masyevtomy they are probably being more cautious with me seeing there is still breast tissue arround...
Jel