Radiation decision

Hopefarm

Hi all!! I was blessed with an early stage dx, and I opted for a mastectomy. I’m inclined to be aggressive in treatment because I’m 40 with young children. My tumor was less than 2 cm, low grade, no lymph node involvement. I was surprised to be referred to radiology after my surgery, with the 2 risk factors of my age plus lymphovascular space invasion. I’m really on the fence about it - I don’t want to introduce the risk factors and SE from radiation unnecessarily, but I also never want to see this come back. The RO is not pushing it - just offering it, no strong recommendation one way or the other. He cited one Harvard study only that may place me in a category that would benefit from radiation. So - anyone else with a similar dx who has a mastectomy and also radiatio

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mtspacekace

I’m going to join in here, as I started a thread earlier, and am in a similar situation. I was recommended rads after bmx with no lymph involvement, because of age, cancer type, I did not have pcr, and it was less than 1mm from my skin. I am also curious as to what others have done. I’m leaning towards rads...I want no regrets in the future. My ro could not give me many studies or stats either.

MinusTwo

mt- I think I already responded on another thread. But yes, since you are HER2+ my opinion would be to throw everything you can at it - especially since you didn't have pCR with the chemo.