Hi all, I was dignosied with breast cancer in Oct 25 was informed that its hormone receptor positive and had my mastectomy one breast and lymphactomy first week in Jan 26. End of Jan 26 at meeting with doctor was informed that tumor was around 11 cm and outof 14, 7 lymph had cancer. I am advised to go for chemo followed by radiaition and hormone therapy.
I am not sure if chemo is required if cancer was hormone receptor positive and what is the timeline if chemo is required to start after mastectomy. can this be just over 95 days? I am still recovering and mentally not strong to go through chemo (if necessary) so wish to start just end of 3 month when someone is available to look after kids so I get relaxing time to recover.
also does what is long term effect not having chemo for hormone receptor positive breast cancer? is there a chance that it wil spread to organ?
Thanks for your support
Hi Ankp
Welcome to our community, I hope you find it both informative and supportive.
I am Steve one of the community champions and my experience of cancer is via my wife who has Leiomyosarcoma so a different form of cancer though also hormone sensitive.
New to the community is a bit like the welcome mat here but does not see as much traffic as our more specific groups, you might find some more relevant expereince if you were to post in our Breast cancer forum though of course not even your oncologist can be sure as to what will happen in your specific case.
I can certainly relate to the question of deciding when or if to start chemotherapy, in my wife's case the oncologist did a watch and wait for some time before recommending chemotherapy
<<hugs>>
Steve
