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After reading Becky's post I suppose I should make clearer my previous post to you. I wasn't given a choice. My tumor was large 4.0 cm and close to the nipple and the surface. Lumpectomy would have left me with half a breast so mastectomy was the method both surgeons I spoke with recommended. However, my first onc. said I should do chemo first to "save my breast" but that wasn't a decision I was comfortable with so did the mastectomy.
Guess I just wanted to clarify that a choice really wasn't available to me but a mastectomy was definitely the right decision for me.
Mary Jo
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Dx. 6/24/05 age 45 Right Breast IDC ER/PR. Neg., - Her2+++ RB Mast. - 7/28/05 - 4 cm. tumor Margins clear - 1 microscopic cell 1 sent. node No Vasucular Invasion 4 DD A/C - 4 DD Taxol & Herceptin 1 full year of Herceptin received every 3 weeks 28 rads prophylactic Mast. 3/2/06
17 Years NED
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