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Re: Implant Question / Radiation Question - Concerns
Radiation works by damaging the dna in actively reproducing cells so that they cannot reproduce. Cancer cells are actively reproducing. HER2 cells are even more active. Following this logic it seems to me that radiation would be even more effective on a HER2+ cancer cell than one that did not have this expression.
That being said I hated radiation more than chemo. I didn't want to do it but in the end the science to point to radiation. Now it's just a distant memory.
Shirley
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- Age 54 at dx (April '13) Stage 2b, grade 3
- ER+ PR+ HER+, 9 cm tumor one breast and <0.5 cm in sentinal node
- BRCA1 and 2 negative
- Neoadjuvant TCH chemo started 5-15-13 (4 rounds, 3 weeks apart)
- Unilateral Mx w/expander 8-22-13 (right side)
- 5/5 nodes Neg
- clear margins but close. Tumor at removal down to 2.2 cm.
- Radiation 6 wks starting 10-17-13.
- Herceptin every 3 weeks until 4-23-14
- DIEP/Mastopexy 10-8-14, U of WA
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