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I know this is a tough decission. I also had multifocal BC. I went through the neoadjuvant chemo, surgery and then radiation. I opted to have a mastectomy. At the decision time my surgeon gave me the option of lumpectomy. I had 4 tumors and am small breasted to begin with. I chose to have the mastectomy one because I figured that being small to start with it would be very disfiguring and second I would always wonder if I would have a recurrance. At the time of the mastectomy I only had one lymph node that was considered inflamatory! All the other tumors had a complete responce, so it is possible. The oncs sometimes will continue chemo after and sometimes not. I wandered through the whole thing if I was doing the right thing by having chemo first and now when I look back, I am very glad I did. You didn's say if you have any node involvement or stage?
Good luck with your decission, Alice
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