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Hi Soccer Mom and welcome ! Lousy club to join but the members are great.
I am a year ahead of you - I am also a strong triple positive and had three lymphnodes removed that turned out to be negative. I am finishing my last treatmet if herceptain on 11/1. If you are not post menapausal, your oncologist will brig up the subject - I have decided to take lupron shots once a month ( to shut down my ovaries and put me in a post menapausal state) this way i ca take arimidex or femara - which have been shown to be more effective than tamoxifen in preventing a reoccurance.
If you had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy, you will also need to have radiation treatment which also isn't so bad.
My advice to you is to see at least two oncologists preferably three in your area to make sue of all of your adjuvent options. I was rwtment at a major cancr ceter and I still saw three others at other cancer centers and the opinions wer wall slightly different.
Good luck to you and if you have any questions, please don't hesittate to ask.
Susanne
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