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Breast cancer recurrence
I have been diagnosed with breast cancer recurrence. I had a lumpectomy followed by chemo and radiation on my left breast in 2004. In 2016 I had a new cancer in my left breast and had a mastectomy fol...
@Pug-lover55 oh, bugger.
I had a recurrence 10 years into Tamoxifen. I can only shrug and think maybe it would have happened after 5 if I hadn't been taking it. I had a DMX after my first diagnosis in 2006 and the shitting thing still came back in my armpit in 2016.
More chemo, more surgery, rads and now AI meds, I'm still alive nearly five years !after. I keep wondering when things will turn turd shaped again, but what more can we do?
There is no magic bullet so we have to take the best advice we can get. It's really disappointing and frustrating when that is not, apparently, enough. Thinking of you. MXX
I had a recurrence 10 years into Tamoxifen. I can only shrug and think maybe it would have happened after 5 if I hadn't been taking it. I had a DMX after my first diagnosis in 2006 and the shitting thing still came back in my armpit in 2016.
More chemo, more surgery, rads and now AI meds, I'm still alive nearly five years !after. I keep wondering when things will turn turd shaped again, but what more can we do?
There is no magic bullet so we have to take the best advice we can get. It's really disappointing and frustrating when that is not, apparently, enough. Thinking of you. MXX