Hi kaloa808, I never went through a lumpectomy/mastectomy. Long story. When I was first diagnosed, my original doctor wanted to set me up for a Mastectomy, then followed by hormonal and chemo. I told my doctor I did not want to go down the path of chemo, so he had me go through a CT scan, Bone Scan and finally a PET Scan. The Bone Scan showed it had traveled to 2 of my vertebrae on my back, so it was metastatic. Because of this, he stated that having a Mastectomy done was no longer an option. Ironically, given the type of cancer I was diagnosed with, the discussion of having an Oophorectomy to have my ovaries removed never came up until 2022. By then, I was with a completely different doctor and hospital.