Hi @frogjumper
Just to add to the feedback, I underwent 3 weeks of daily radiation after my relatively small, grade 2, ER, PR+ tumor after lumpectomy, nothing in nodes or margins, was on left side and I did the hold your breath routine to keep rad away from heart. I very much hoped to avoid radiation (I even avoided dental x-rays most of my life, almost a phobia), and managed to avoid rad when diagnosed with a different cancer 11 yrs ago (Hodgkin's lymphoma, only chemo) but this time my radiologist was very convincing (said with rad, 95% protection from recurrence). But last summer I had a bc (same type) recurrence 2.5 yrs later anyhow, in scar tissue. After the rad I had opted not to take the AI which perhaps would have protected me, will never know. Dr said without rad, maybe the recurrence would have happened more quickly.
The rad had so little visible effect on me I wondered if the machine was actually working correctly (no noticeable effect on skin, only very slight shortlived fatigue after).
All the dire effects reported about the AI scared me off, but now have been taking it for past 6 months (alternate days, my decision), and no effects; maybe at 71 yrs, the estrogen has already faded away, don't know but in my case at least, I detect no effects from it or the rad.