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@abinoone
Actually, the fact that the results are the same whether they’re having radiation or surgery are mentioned a lot in the 10 pages previous to your comment. Too bad you couldn’t put in the link yet, but many of us are aware of it and tell people about it.

I’m not sure you noticed that the original question was December 2 and there were 10 pages of replies. Pretty sure he’s decided by now.

I picked surgery in 2010 and 3 1/2 years later it came back so I had radiation and it’s come back three more times since then but I’m still alive and I’ve been undetectable for the last 25 months. Surgery gave me 3 1/2 more years than I would’ve gotten with radiation since I have BRCA2, which causes my cancer to keep coming back. Didn’t find out about that till five years ago. For younger people surgery can make a lot of sense because you can have radiation after and the recurrence rate is pretty high.

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When known you have BRCA2 how does this affect future treatments? Wondering about testing for this since there is family history.