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Treatment plan questions following my wife's recent diagnosis?
Wife (age72 in good health) was diagnosed with breast cancer (DCIS, Hormone Receptor Positive, IDC)? a few weeks ago after an imaging test and a needle Biopsy. They put a couple of chips/markers? in her, then her doctor referred her to a General Surgeon. The Surgeon gave her 2 options: a Mastectomy or a Lumpectomy followed by 5 weeks of radiation (to be determined by another doctor at the hospital).
She chose the lumpectomy and the radiation. He also said he would make a separate incision to sample a lymph node.
Is there something else she may not be considering in this treatment plan? We are both less than knowledgeable about all this. Thanks for any feedback.
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P.S. I had a lumpectomy
I'm 58 years old and was diagnosed with ER+/HER2- breast cancer exactly one year ago. I chose unilateral mastectomy due to the size of my small breast vs. the size of the tumor (which ended up being quite large at 70mm). Because of the size of my tumor and that I had a small bit of cancer in my lymph nodes, I received 5 weeks of radiation after the mastecomy. Now am on aromotase inhibitors and a targeted therapy (protein inhibitor - basically chemo-in-a-pill). I found the more I read on my own, the more confident I felt about any treatments and playing a role in the decision-making. "Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book" was a great resource for me - it is full of information and the studies to back it up. Dr. Love is pretty no-nonsense and the book includes not only the science of breast cancer but pulls in anectodal information from her patients on how they feel, etc. It's a beast of a book at around 600 pages, but I read the whole thing. At times it put my mind at ease and at times helped me develop questions for my oncologist. Best of luck to your wife and to you. Keep charging onward!
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