radiation advise
Wishing all a joyous and blessed New Year. I have been lurking on this site for some time and the sisterhood and information is beyond compare. Many thanks for the support and knowledge given freely here. I want to share my saga because my expereince has been so positive. However, I am seeking advise, moving forward, and value your collective imput. I was diagnosed in March 09 with stage 3, grade 3 IDC. I was fortunate enough to be placed in a Brown University trial using Herceptin, abraxane and carboplatin in a neo-adjuvant setting. I completed the chemo with every side effect known to womankind, my support sisters call me the Chemo poster child. Once that was finished (Oct 09) I had a modified radical mastectomy and lymph node dissection. (26 nodes removed). My post surgery pathology report shows no sign of viable invasive cancer in both the breast tissue and lymph nodes. So here I sit awaiting the surgeon's recomendations for radiation. She said if I was under 50 that they would treat me with radiation, however at the ripe old age of 53 it was a gray area. Part of me wants to continue to be as aggressive as can be~ throw everything at the beast and be done with it. Yet my logical mind says it may be benefical to keep some guns in reserve. And why put my poor body through yet another treatment that will have possibly long term side effects. I wanted to share this promising study with you~ they have not released any results as of yet, but they tell me I am not alone in my positive outcome. I would heartily recommend neo adjuvant chemo to anyone. I can't begin to tell you how freeing the knowledge that the chemo worked is! Any imput on radiation or not is welcome and appreciated.
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