Robyn, if it helps your case at all, here's a link to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's web site, along with an excerpt; their recommendation would support radiation and/or chemo. If that is what you want to ease fears of a more serious recurrence, you will possibly have to "shop" around; ie. a second opinion?
Also, I agree with julierene, 2 months seems like a long time to wait, not knowing what you're dealing with in the lung. What is your health system's take on PET scans? If that's not possible, push for another CT to the lungs/abdomen, but be sure it's WITH contrast, a nuclear injection that will help "highlight" any areas of abnormality.
Treatment Options
Treatment for a Local Recurrence
Despite treatment, breast cancer sometimes comes back. If the cancer reappears in the breast or near the mastectomy scar, it is a local recurrence.
The treatment you will receive for a local recurrence depends on the treatment you had initially.
· If you had a lumpectomy or other breast conservation surgery, a local recurrence in the breast will probably be treated with a mastectomy.
· If you had a mastectomy, a recurrence will be treated by removing the tumor, if possible, and then radiation therapy.
· In either case, this initial treatment may be followed with hormone therapy, chemotherapy, or both.
http://www.seattlecca.org/patientsan...Recurrence.htm