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Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 12, 2023 | Replies (1190)Comment receiving replies
Your case seems almost identical to mine. i had stage zero dcis and had a lumpectomy. The only glitch is I have a chek2 gene. I start radiation Friday, but I am very against taking anything. I also have osteopenia and just cannot see tipping that scale and having more issues. To make matters worse I had thyroid cancer and am on meds for that which took me two years to get straight. They showed me the numbers. It is 87 percent at 5 years with meds and 83 percent without. What I feel they leave out is the quality of life. If mine returns then I am going straight to a bilateral mastectomy. The good thing about cancer centers is they watch you very carefully. Good Luck. They told me I have til July to make up my mind.
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Yes they do watch you carefully, but did they tell you - if it returns it may NOT come back as breast cancer. Most likely places it returns is Brain, Bones, Lungs, Liver. I heard about a lady who had that same plan (a double mastectomy if it returned), but it came back as brain cancer (breast cancer in the brain) and she died. I had stage 1 IDC and had a lumpectomy with 21 radiation treatments, with no chemo. Yes we must all make our choices as to quality of life but make sure you are completely informed. So that is why I'm taking Exemestane and hope to go at the least the full 5 years. But my bones were good, so that is a factor. I did not have thyroid cancer, but I do take thyroid meds - that is a pain getting them at the correct dosage. Good luck with radiation.