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How important is taking hormone blockers after surgery for IDC?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 8, 2023 | Replies (91)Comment receiving replies
I'm 71, my breast cancer was about half an inch, but I did have one node in my sentinel gland that was positive. All margins clear on both. I'm debating whether I want to do hormone suppressants also. I did do 18 radiation treatments. We're relatively young, so my pharmacist told me. But statistics do not show that it's worth it even for me to do the spent. My Oncologist told me that if I hadn't had the cancer in the lymph node, she wouldn't recommend the suppressant, but it's iffie since I did.
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I did not take those drugs and I too hsd micro in sentinal node. Now. cancer spread to nodes in armpit..six years later. but I didn't do radiation either. so you did rsds...that may prevent recurrence.
Hi @themagster,
All I can do is share my experience. After my second bout with breast cancer in 2005, I refused to take a hormone blocker after weeks of chemo followed by weeks of radiation.
My BC returned in 2020, and I had a second mastectomy done. Because the margins and the sentinel node were both clear, I opted once again not to take a hormone blocker.
This past September, not even two years after my last mastectomy in 2020, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer with mets to my skull, ribs, spine and pelvis after I fell and broke my lumbar spine (L3.)
I am now stage 4. I often wonder if this would have happened if I had agreed to take the hormone blocker.
I just don’t know. Unfortunately, I will never know.
I am 68.
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This is the same for me, and I have taken similar decision as you, go well. xx