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Radiation or not

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 6 7:58am | Replies (66)

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@gerarda

Hello Lifetraveler,
Thank you for your kind words. Somehow I thought I already responded but I guess it didn’t go through. Anyway, I never did radiation. Both specialists at Dana Farber told me the survival chances would be the same with or without radiation. I did start with Letrozole but stopped after 3 months when I got strange symptoms not knowing is they resulted from the meds. Eventually I got diagnosed with PMR and have been on prednisone since then. After that I got diagnosed with coronary disease and received a stent. I worry less about the breast cancer now because I feel I’m going to be okay with that. If there is a recurrence I can do another lumpectomy as well as radiation. Keeping my fingers crossed. Sending you best wishes for your situation and hope you are doing well. Big Hug

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I have not done radiation nor hormone blocker. Blocking causes osteoporosis. My odds of cancer coming back are low so I will just have a lumpectomy if it comes back. Life is too short for me to spend the rest of it with other complications and feeling badly.