Breast Cancer Support Group

Has anyone with smaller breast size had 5 day breast radiation as opposed to 15 days?

I started radiation and I’m getting a sharp pain every now and then in my breast and also some pain near my sentinel node incision....

I had DCIS, stage 0, then a lumpectomy done in Dec.2023. Developed a seroma, had the fluid taken out. Did 5 days total of radiation...

I am both progesterone and estrogen negative, duct was in Situ and 4cm in length, grade 3 and Stage 0…..Can you verify that Mayo’s is...

I had early stage breast cancer and IORT. Three years on tamoxifen, no major problems so far. Anyone else have IORT and how is it...

I was diagnosed woth DCIS with Lymp Node involvement.My Omcology Radiologist told.me that I will have to do 33 treatments of radiation.I have already had...

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Hello Anyone ever have bleeding from the nipple while doing radiation treatment? Always after I take my bra off. Radiology team and doctor say they...

I am post lumpectomy after removing 1.8cm tumor, right side, IDC, stage 1/grade 2, ER+/PR-/HER2- , oncotype 32 but no node involvement and clean margins....

Does anyone know if you have a period of time to take an AI for it to be effective, after radiation?

I finished radiation last August after a lumpectomy. Everything was fine for a couple months. In late December I fractured a rib coughing. A month...

Has anyone else had this?

Hello wonderful community,All surgeries behind me now and weighing risks of radiation therapy or not. I've just become aware of new studies and testing that...

I have to decide whether to choose regular radiation, proton radiation or continuing with letrozole only. I am going for the radiation plan work up...

Receiving mixed messages... articles and doctors saying lumpectomy with radiation is better for me... understood that I needed radiation and tamoxifen either way. My mother...

I am starting left breast radiation and wondering if anyone has had complications of heart or lung issues from it?TIA

Did you start during radiation? Right after? Or waited until you healed?

Hello, I'm new here and today I start my first radiation treatment. I will be having treatment for 3 weeks. The one thing that keeps...

HiI had my lumpectomy, December fifteenth, awaiting results of pathology, hopefully January sixteenth, he will have them. just want to know what people have done...

I recently had a lumpectomy for DCIS . How many weeks after the surgery do you start radiation therapy? Would it be too late if...