Ibrance and Letrozole: Newly Diagnosed Treatment

I am 80 years old and had a lumpectomy, chemo and radiation just this last year. I don't want to take anti-estrogens, so I'm not. I am HER2positive.
My surgeon told me to start having a plant based diet. Thank you for the above information.

@raebaby why aren't you taking anti-estrogens? I took letrozole for 5 years and didn't have too many problems. What are you taking for the HER2+?

I know two people who used a dietary approach to cancer and, I hate to say it, they did not do well. Diet can possibly help, but should probably not be relied on alone. Did your doctor encourage using a plant based diet as the only treatment?

If you watch Forks over knives and read The China Study you will understand the science that proves the value of Plant Based eating. If you need more references let me know
Good luck!

I feel awful with no estrogen in my system so since I am 80 I want to enjoy my life without them and my oncologist agreed with me. I had Herceptin in my chemo treatments and I hope I have no more cancer. If it comes back I would take Herceptin again, and radiation, but never Taxol.

No he didn't. He said the odds were not greatly improved if I didn't take it. I had been on hormone treatment ever since menopause. (I'm 80 now)Taking that additional estrogen certainly didn't help, but I no longer do that.
It was the surgeon who talked to me about the plant based diet when I went in to get my port removed after finishing treatment last week.

I assume you meant something else:
"He said the odds were not greatly improved if I didn't take it. " If he meant the odds aren't greatly improved if you do take it, that's great news. Good luck!

He just said if I didn't feel good taking it, he wouldn't push it. I believe one's chances of not getting cancer are improved by about 3 percent taking anti-estrogens.
As it is, I feel really happy. I like this feeling rather than having a few extra years of life but feeling really sad.

Risk varies for all of us, in terms of not doing anti-estrogens. You must have had a low Oncotype score with a risk of 3%. That's great!

Raebaby , I believe I have already asked why chemo and rad has been recommended after lumpectomy ?
I have my bilateral lumpectomy a year ago and wasn’t chemo of rad done .
As a matter of fact I have read that radiation could worsened heart conditions ,that is a case for my( arrhythmia) !
I better keep my heart ticking , than waiting for the cancer reoccurrence!
Therefore, at 82 I settled for Tamoxifen 1/2 ( just for possible prevention) , better than nothing .
And exercise the holistic approach to boost my immunity.
No estrogen might affect endometriosis organs for possible cancer ( so I watched)
Other than that I am with you on your life tactics !!

Thanks! I don't care much about preventing a tumor by taking anti-estrogens because they make me an irritated , emotional mess.. As I've said, I could die a few years from now anyway and these years hopefully, will be good ones. For instance, I'm 80 years old (a widow of almost 3 years )and traveling to visit my boyfriend from the 8th grade who ,as they said in the 20's, thinks I'm, "the cats meow." I'm just going to try to have fun. I live very well , have 4 great kids with college degrees and good jobs. I was able to give them money for down payments on their houses and here in California and Oregon, real estate has been a winner for us all.. My ducks are in line. ((knock on wood.)