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Anyone had cancer return while taking hormone therapy meds?
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Hello Rubyslippers,
Definitely, I agree with you. I would like to know after all the treatments if I am disease free. I am currently on hormonal therapies and inhibitor. But I don't know if I am cancer free. I can only be cancer free if no residual cancer cells are not found in my blood and bones. In order to know this, you need a scan to detect. Nonetheless, if such scan is available at the end of cancer treatment it will give the doctor precise information about the cancer patients if they need additional medications or is cancer free. I hope such scan will be available in the bear future. Hopefully thus will give cancer patients who need more treatments get the right medical needs and those who are cured don't need to take additional medications unnecessarily.
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Yes, if only there was a scan .... Currently, there is none. Blood tests for cancer markers are not reliable and the Cancer Tumor DNA test is not 100% either. I read that 30% of BC patients will have a metastasis due to the body having resistance to the AI and Tamoxifen. Terrible odds. We can only do so much - I have cut out alcohol, most sugars, eating lots of broccoli, kale and supplements. On Exemestane.
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@judypark001 I don't know if there is a scan that can assure us cancer won't recur or spread, at the end of treatment. Maybe someone else can chime in. I have read here and elsewhere that there might be a blood test that is currently, according to my doctors, only being used for stage 4 patients to assess treatments but might someday be available for those of us who are waiting for the other shoe to drop.