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Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 11 10:22am | Replies (37)

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@jgallagher04921

Yes. Sorry I should have chosen different words. How it was explained to me was.... no benefit to if a recurrence comes back or not. My survival rate was still the same whether I did chemo or not. But now I can help but think what if there were an traces of cancer left behind. I had no chemo to kill it. But maybe being on an AI would be enough to not allow any traces to grow?? I should ask my Dr this.

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@rom828 yes your doctor can explain how helpful the aromatase inhibitors are for hormonal cancers like ours. Again I had grade 3 and cancer cells in my lymph vessels and after 5 years letrozole, no chemo, am 9 1/2 years out knock on wood.

I did another test after 5 years- the Breast Cancer Index- that showed high risk but no benefit from further treatment with an AI. They have changed the risk categorization since then. My risk was 5.7% and they found that patients interpreted that "high risk" label with a lot of fear, though it is in reality a pretty low risk and similar to the Oncotype's low risk for me.