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Triple Negative Breast Cancer: What treatments are you having?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 6 11:41am | Replies (244)
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@colleenyoung

Hi @cindyhikes, welcome. You'll notice that I moved your question about choosing mastectomy only for treatment of TNBC to this existing discussion:

- Triple Negative Breast Cancer: What treatments are you having? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/triple-negative-breast-cancer/

I did this so you could see the choices others have made and to more easily connect with triple negative members like @thielmann1 @markagottlieb @kimann @sharonemma @destincindy and more.

I believe that @jjhhdd and @skay (caregiver for her mom) chose surgery only.

Cindy, you didn't mention the size of the tumors. Might it be possible to do surgery first and then decide whether or not to have chemo and/or immunotherapy?

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cindyhikes | @cindyhikes | Jun 14, 2022

Thank you so very much for this. It is possible to do surgery first, but I've been reluctant to do that if there really is no chance it would be enough to stop the cancer. I'd like to know if it is actually possible that might do it before I go down that path.

Or if it might slow the progression a few months or a year, it still might be worth it.

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