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Any early (less than 5yrs) local recurrence of early stage IDC?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Nov 27, 2022 | Replies (20)
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@cashemire

Thanks for your reply. I don't know why my radiation didn't eliminate everything; I wonder if the Covid delay had something to do with it. I was assured that studies showed waiting longer than 8 weeks to start rad would be fine, I ended up waiting about 12 weeks due to Covid back in 2020.

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callalloo | @callalloo | Aug 7, 2022

I had a lumpectomy last fall and was told that site-specific radiation could lower the risk of recurrence for the cancer I had from 10% to 2% but that those numbers were assuming that I had the radiation within 3 weeks. (This was 3 weeks after the surgery.) The radiologist said that they've done radiation later than that during covid chaos and thought it was just effective.

I also had the OncotypeDX and was told by two scientists at the firm that the 'risk of recurrence within 9 years' (aka the risk percentage score, not the Recurrence Score from which its derived) applied to loco-regional, anywhere in the body' recurrence. And I that's true.

I am so sorry to read that you're dealing with this, yet alone again. I read that the greatest risk for cancer is aging which is, when one thinks about it, at least an irony as aging is itself winning against a lot of health challenges that befalled earlier generations. And therefore lucky.

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