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Anyone had cancer return while taking hormone therapy meds?
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Recurrence found ( by me feeling a cherry pit size nodule near original tumor site) after mastectomy 2.5 years ago. No rad nor chemo ( onco informed ). Regret I opted out of rad! 2.5 years anastrazole.
Now Verzenio or Kisquali being recommended post excision as well as radiation.
I’m sorry to hear of your side effects … seems like a long list of concerns. Of course I’m stunned and worried about what is happening.
Has neutropenia been helped by the new regimen? Hoping it has.
Best to you and all of us on the unwanted journey.
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Did you have reconstruction? Just wondering how you felt the second lump. I've been fearing since I had mastectomy and reconstruction I won't feel any lumps and it would spread to other areas before I'll realize it came back.
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Like you, I had a local recurrence 2.5 yrs after IDC and lumpectomy. Note that I did have rad but despite the rad, which my radiologist said was what would be more effective in preventing return compared to AI, which I declined at the time, it returned near same site. So there are no guarantees even with rad. In my case I have to wonder whether the AI would have prevented the recurrence, and my having to undergo mastectomy, but will never know. Now I take the AI. Is interesting to compare our 2 cases, since you opted out of rad, and I out of AI, and we both had recurrence! Best of luck to you!