Radiation after DMX
Happy new year everyone!! I have a question and I know everyone is different. But, how many of you after neoadjuvant chemo, and a double mastectomy with clean margins and no lymph nodes have had to have radiation too?
I would like to see studies on percentages etc. but I really can find anything. Yes my original tumor was large but after surgery I had no lymph nodes and all my margins were clear. And I had already had chemo.
Can someone give me ideas to ponder. Or studies that show actual stats?
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I'm not clear on your question. Has your oncologist recommended radiation? Are you trying to decide for yourself whether you should request it?
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I’m so sorry! Ok my oncologist seems to think that it might not be beneficial, but wants to hear what the radiologist has to say before making a final decision. the radiologist that is a oncologist too might say i need it as she said before i had chemo or surgery that i would need it. I see the radiologist today. I am just trying to weigh in on all the aspects of it. And I want to know how beneficial it is to do it based on pathology after surgery.
Trying to decide best questions for radiologist. Although I will make the final decision with my oncologist.
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Well, I think if your radiologist recommends radiation the main question you should ask, is why. Nobody here knows the details of your case in order to advise. I suspect the matter is further complicated because you had chemo first, so post-chemo lymph nodes status - only three were checked - may not necessarily be a reliable indication of the spread. But I am not a medical doctor.
Why were you classified as stage IIIB?
Good luck with your appointments
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