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Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 27, 2023 | Replies (78)Comment receiving replies
What I don't understand is why is hormonal treatment is still needed after double mastectomy.
I am reading "Hormone therapy is still recommended for women with early-stage breast cancer who have had mastectomies because it can help prevent a distant recurrence (metastatic disease)."
" The breast cancer cells have receptors (proteins) that attach to estrogen and progesterone, which helps them grow. Treatments that stop these hormones from attaching to these receptors are called hormone or endocrine therapy."
What other cancers are related to estrogen and progesterone? I thought that breast cancer only. If you have double mastectomy then where is the recurrence happening?
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I am not a medical person but I understood that, especially in my case because I had positive lymph nodes, the cancer cells could have escaped the breast area and travelled to other parts of my body. Breast cancer recurrence happens in other body parts like bones, lungs, etc.