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What helped you make treatment decisions following DCIS lumpectomy?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 18 8:02am | Replies (119)
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@elliej

Thanks for your post. I’m currently deciding what treatment to take, radiation or AI. This has been a hard decision for me. I conflicted on side effects of both since I’m 73, relatively healthy ( looming Osteopenia). Has anyone experience to help decision making. My OncoType is 16. 🌼

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anjalima | @anjalima | Oct 20, 2022

I choose AI , at 71 ( until Saturday). No obvious side effects. Radiation was scary to me and as it addresses local / regional and I had a unilateral mastectomy I felt “ cleaned out” of breast tissue. I had 2 positive sentinel nodes and 5 next in line we’re negative…

AI is systemic. My understanding was AI was prescribed even if I had chosen radiation.

Hope this helps you on your journey… these decisions are very challenging and the learning curve is steep! 🌸

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