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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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@cctoo

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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catlady7 | @catlady7 | Dec 10, 2022

Hi @cctoo —

After my second mastectomy in 2020, my margins and sentinel node were both clear of cancer cells. I definitely wasn’t stage 4. I figure I was stage 1, if that. Once I had my margins and a node were clean, I just didn’t care. I thought I was safe.

In retrospect, I wish I had given Arimidex a chance. However, I had truly horrible hot flashes after chemo in 2005, and I didn’t want to go through that again! By 18 months later, the cancer had metastasized.

I do tend to believe it was fate — or serendipity, as my Mom would have said — that I fell when I did. I had to have kyphoplasty, and a sample that was taken at that time confirmed cancer caused my spinal fracture moreso than the fall I took.

And you know what? I haven’t had a single hot flash in the three months since I started letrozole!

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