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How important is taking hormone blockers after surgery for IDC?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 8, 2023 | Replies (91)
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@catlady7

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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cctoo. Catherine Crowley | @cctoo | Dec 10, 2022

I am so sorry. They really don't know what bc is..or cancer period!!! You would not know you had cancer again if you hadn't fallen. Did Dr's say your second bout in 2020 wss stage four? I don't know if I'm in stage four now since it's in my lymph nodes...after oncologist telling me in 2021 I was in remission or ned. This second one started with a single enlarged lymph node up high in armpit

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cctoo. Catherine Crowley | @cctoo | Dec 10, 2022

he hormone blocker would have caused you to possibly end up with joint replacement.. much sooner and your quality of life would be compromised... so you did what was best at the time. And many treatments for stage four.. I may be there too.

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