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Re: mastectomy versus lumpectomy for HER2
What do her Dr's say?? I had a tumour much larger than your sisters and three nodes positive but chose a lumpectomy with rads and I'm now going into my ninth year out with no regrets. However I was in treatment for around eighteen months and treated this very aggressively too, if I had had a mast I wouldn't have bothered with reconstruction, one because I've met too many women who had to have more surgeries as they were unhappy, and two because it really wasn't that important to me. I've met a few women who for one reason or another recon failed, I really didn't want to put myself through that.
My advice would be to allow your sister to make her own choice's, she'll know what she wants and she can always do recon at a later date if she choose's to.
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Tricia
Dx July '05 IDC 1.9cm Triple positive 3/9 nodes positive
A/C X 4 ..Taxol/Herceptin x 12 wks then herceptin 1 yr
Rads x 36 ..oophorectomy August '06
Currently taking Arimidex..
June 2011 osteopenia/ zometa x1 yearly- stopped Zometa 2015 as Dexa show normal bone density.
Stopped Arimidex July 2014- Restarted Arimidex 2015 for a further two years on the advice of my Onc.
2014 Normal Dexa scan
2018 Mammo all clear, still NED!
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