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The nurse practitioner said that because that breast had been radiated, I wasn’t a good candidate for surgery. My sister, a nurse, said radiated tissue doesn’t heal well. I am going to wait till I have an MRI to see the size of the lesion and to check to see of my chest wall is involved since the ultrasound couldn’t view that. Then, I’ll see a breast surgeon and breast oncologist.
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Thank you for that. It certainly explains a few things for me. I wonder why I never once heard that in my own journey, but I guess rural docs don’t always follow all the current protocols or explain them. . I guess I am glad for that, considering the circumstances. I would not second guess any of the choices I have made.
If you are not a candidate for surgery or radiation, and this is a local recurrence, do you know what the plan would be to treat it?