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Metastatic breast cancer: Anyone else?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 12 3:44pm | Replies (213)
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@nicole66

My mother is in stage 4 breast cancer and takes chemo but not radiation. How important is it to have radiation?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jun 16, 2018

Hi @nicole66, welcome to Connect.
You'll notice that I moved your message to this existing discussion about stage 4 breast cancer. I did this so you could meet others talking about metastatic breast cancer and treatments, like @wandering @mertdog2000 @elvandi @djankord1 and others.

Nicole, there are many factors that your mom's cancer team will consider when recommending treatments for breast cancer, like the tumor type, stage, size, age and previous treatments received. No two people are alike. It is possible that radiation is not appropriate at this time or that palliative radiation may be offered later if the tumor grows.

Can you tell us a bit more, if you're comfortable? Is this your mom's first diagnosis or a recurrence? Are you her main caregiver?

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