Hi
Really didn’t expect to be here but thanking my lucky stars I have an amazing partner with me, but I do worry about her, having been through this twice with my late wives, I feel it is harder for her than it is for me. So I need to prep her for likely outcome and it is difficult to find.
Had a mastectomy a week ago and originally told I was going onto Tamoxifen for 5 years. Awake early as one tends to be these days and trying to find out what this treatment does.
Does it kill stop the cancer returning permanently or just reduce the risk of it returning for 5 years?
What happens at the end of 5 years?
Survival rates for men are difficult to find but I think Cancer Research, given my age, give me a 85% chance of surviving 5 years and gradually decreasing after that. So I guess that’s 5 years of taking tamoxifen, so do I assume the drug stops working after 5 years?
My first wife had breast cancer treated with lumpectomy, radio, chemo and tamoxifen and didn’t quite make 5 years but was a higher grade cancer than mine to begin with and was 6 years younger at diagnosis.
Can anyone point me in the direction of some helpful, clear survival rate information for male breast cancer, it would be really helpful to know the full picture, I know nothing is certain but most likely scenario would be really helpful at this point. I’m seeing the oncologist in a weeks time but that’s another week of little sleep!
Thank you and big hugs to all
