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Would like to communicate with all those who have made the decision to forgo radiation.

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1188350/

Discussion: Did anyone else decide to not have radiation?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 11, 2024

Hi @maryjane61, is your cancer team suggesting that you have radiation and endocrine therapy?

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/971867/

Discussion: Invasive ductal carcinoma and length of radiation treatment

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Nov 28, 2023

I started on Lexatrole approximately 3 weeks after my last radiation treatment.

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/910498/

Discussion: If you had radiation, when did you start hormone therapy?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Aug 10, 2023

Radiation duration is based on the level and condition of the targetted area to be treated....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/891614/

Discussion: 5 day breast radiation for smaller breast sized women

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jul 7, 2023

What treatment after that did you receive? Radiation? Tamoxifen? Thanks for any help.

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/885182/

Discussion: Has anyone had an ultrasound guided needle biopsy for diagnosis?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 25, 2023

I had the Lumpectomy and now I will start proton radiation for 5 days in a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/798509/

Discussion: Is 81 too old for a lumpectomy in Stage 1 Grade 2 IDC?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 18, 2023

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1450234/

Discussion: Anyone have Gamma Knife to treat Brain metastasis?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Nov 30, 2025

@roz24 i am grade 3 her2 positive, idk if that is why they want radiation

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1410594/

Discussion: Anyone forego radiation? Research, personal experience, outcomes

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Oct 7, 2025

i had a lumpectomy many years ago.....basically an owie w a Band-Aid. i later had dcis...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1560951/

Discussion: Questions as I prepare for a lumpectomy: Tips please

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: 1 day ago

Hi! Jeana: Thanks for sharing! But this is shocking discovery indeed! I can't imagine how your...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/978192/

Discussion: Prone position mapping for left breast.

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 10, 2023

@danielad Hi Dee - I had to go back four times to have hematoma/seroma removed following...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/314010/

Discussion: Lumpectomy scar healing time

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 24, 2020

Hello, I had a double mastectomy with implants and radiation. The implants were done at the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/955457/

Discussion: Deciding if I should do bilateral or double mastectomy??

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Oct 28, 2023

Hi bemar23, I was diagnosed with stage 3B triple negative breast cancer two and a half...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/843193/

Discussion: Triple Negative Breast Cancer: What treatments are you having?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Apr 14, 2023

Hello @sharonandkathy i am sorry you are going through this. If this is a very recent...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1314511/

Discussion: lumpectomy made my breast look deformed

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 27, 2025

I had 5 months of chemo before 33 radiation treatments. The chemo fatigue had me beaten....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1081782/

Discussion: Fatigue after radiation

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 6, 2024

I had breast cancer 10 years ago, had surgery and radiation, has not come back--------now I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/803438/

Discussion: Breast cancer spread to liver, skull, spine, ribs, hips etc.

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 29, 2023

yes i have ER/PR+ AND HER2- The radiation dr. recommends 20 radiation treatments. I had to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/741139/

Discussion: HER2- and ER/PR+

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Aug 24, 2022

Hi @karenatmayo. so sorry that you are feeling so miserable. Here are some resources about brain...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/166551/

Discussion: Metastatic Breast Cancer: Whole brain radiation side effects

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 4, 2017

I applaud everyone here taking a hormone receptor I was diagnosed 1.2mm tumor E&P100% positive Her-2Neg...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1396930/

Discussion: Any ideas on what is the cause of my sudden hair loss, severe thinnin

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 19, 2025

I’m doing fine. Thank you for asking. Next week I’m scheduled for a CT Simulation to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1319114/

Discussion: Has anyone taken Arimidex along with the Fulvestrant injections?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 3, 2025

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