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Breast Cancer: Tight chest wall following radiation
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 17, 2022 | Replies (8)Comment receiving replies
I am sorry this has happened to you. There are quite a few responses about this very topic on another thread. If you post a question there, I bet there will be some tips or at least some common ground. You are not alone in this.
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mastectomy-1/?pg=9#chv4-comment-stream-header
Do you have a sense if this is from the surgery, or the radiation?
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The surgery involved using part of my dorsal flap to close the gap from removing 2 small lumps so I'm sure there is scar tissue. The symptoms started to surface about the 3rd to 4th week of radiation ( I had a total of 6 weeks), so I'm assuming that it was a combination of radiation and scar tissue.