[Jackie07]

Britbee,

I had exactly the same thing happen to me after I finished my radiation therapy!

My oncologist had told me clearly at the beginning that the tumor was not hormone positive, thus I couldn not use hormone therapy. When several docoters (not him) I saw at the end of my chemo/radiation mentioned about starting me on Tamoxifen, I thought they were crazy! (Especially the first one who had told me about it.)

But then I began to wonder why everyone was talking about taking Tamoxifen. So I called the medical oncologist's office and then got a confirmation that I did need to take Tamoxifen as the tumor had a 2 % Er + feature. New research has confirmed that women with low percentage Er+ breast cancer still benefit from taking Tamoxifen.

Later I learned that it's actually good to have the receptors. I guess it's just like Her2+++ breast cancer - it was a bad diagnosis when it did not respond to chemotherapy. But it is a better diagnosis now because there's antidote such as Herceptin/Tykerb/...

Yet I understand your frustration. Just when we think we've done what we are supposed to do, something new is thrown at us again!