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Low Risk IDC w/ Baseline Multiple Painful Conditions
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Apr 14 4:04pm | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
It seems like a priority to get off hormones, sorry. That is my lay person's view but with high estrogen scores, the hormones are feeding any stray cancer cells- if there are any.
If anyone continued low dose hormone replacement in the context of a hormonal cancer, I hope they will chime in.
It does sound like tamoxifen would be better than an aromatase inhibitor for you!
This is a complicated situation, one that requires your doctors to talk with one another. You could see a second opinion on the radiation. Was a mastectomy out of the question for you? That is how I avoided radiation.
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@windyshores I appreciate your thoughts. I explained my situation to my surgeon after her offer of a lumpectomy and asked her if, knowing my conditions and concerns, a mastectomy would be better in order to avoid radiation. She told me that breast conserving surgery with radiation would still be better on the whole for me than a mastectomy and no radiation. I still question that and wish i had asked for a second opinion. Yesterday was 3 days without hormones, so I'm making progress. I'll make it 4 today. I would very much like to hear if others have continued bioidentical hormones. Thank you!