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Mastectomies are not an option for those over 65???!!!
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 28, 2023 | Replies (84)Comment receiving replies
Just wanted you to know, I had my breast cancer when I was 36. There was not Chemo, and Radiation was given only if Positive lymph nodes were found. No other testing was done except to diagnose the tumor was cancer. Unfortunately, I do not know what type etc. and the treatment was a Radical Mastectomy, and two years later a simple mastectomy of the second breast. There was no reconstruction at that time. I had no followup medication.
I did take several different t ypes of medication for Osteoporosis, which I have since stopped at the advise of my Hemotologist. I have developed an M in my blood which requires a check every 6 months. I have been told this is probably nothing, and if my next check is the same I do not have to be checked again for 1 year (God willing I am still here, I am 92 years old).
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Bless you for sharing how far we have come! I also was diagnosed young and it was the opposite, I was refused a mastectomy and given multiple surgeries, chemo and radiation, then endocrine therapy. Sometime I feel like it was the dark ages compared to today and I am only 19 years out. 😂😂
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OMG that is amazing dx at 36 and you're now 92 - that is amazing. I have never looked at my dx as a "death sentence" as probably may have been the case many years ago. I look at it as a "condition" that needs to be treated and monitored. I'm 70 and have 3 young grandchildren that I plan to see graduate at least high school. There is longevity in my family mom is 96 and still going strong and my dad passed (2021) at 96. He was dx with colon cancer at 60 and lived a long time after - fortunately it was dx very early stage. You are an example of what we all strive to achieve - a long life after dx.