Has anyone had mastectomy and hormonal therapy only?

B-B

I would like to hear from anyone who has had mastectomy and hormonal therapy only. I am 63 and on anastrozole. 

Anonymous

I had mastectomy and hormonal therapy only.  But that was also the standard of care  for my Stage and based on my oncotype score.  It's not like I was going against the norm. 

Blessings2011

Hi, B-B - Welcome to the forum!

When you start a new topic, your signature line (with details of your diagnosis) does not show.

So in answer to your question, I think you will find quite a few women - myself included - who had only a mastectomy and an AI or a SERM. I am 63 and just quit Femara.

However, my dx is quite different from yours. 

You might want to add a reply that automatically will include your diagnosis and statistics. 

That way you will hear from women who had similar diagnoses and went the way of surgery and hormonal therapy only.

Janett2014

I fit this category but only very recently. My BMX was 7 weeks ago, and I started taking Arimidex 7 days ago. I am 60. 

exbrnxgrl

Welcome. You may think that this is odd, but that's exactly what I had and I'm stage IV. I have never had chemo! Quite common for ER+ stage IV women, often without the mastectomy.

B-B

Janett2014 I hope your healing from surgery is going well. My surgery was 8 weeks ago (right breast only). Incision healing going well but still a lot of edema. Mixed info on that. Some say up to 12 weeks of edema is normal. Doing exercises to prevent lymphedema as I had 8 nodes out and working on range of motion in arm. 

I have history of radiation (large one dose shot) and surgery for benign brain tumor acoustic neuroma which caused many problems. 

So I wasn't given radiation and chose mastectomy as lumpectomy usually goes along with radiation.