Help with Planning Next Step of TX

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Pure
Pure Member Posts: 1,796
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

I am about 10 weeks away from chemo starting.

I am meeting with 3 differents rads specialists to choose who I will work with.

I am debating between shots and the oomph. I am not sure if I should do shots while I let my body recover then do the masectomy/omph in one shot.

Am I missing anything? This the is sort of the schedule of events correct?

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  • KerryMac
    KerryMac Member Posts: 3,529
    edited February 2010

    Yep, seems perfect to me!

    the Standard of Care here in Ontario, is Rads start 4 weeks after Chemo ends (I had a 3 week Chemo cycle, not weekly) and hormones start at that point too.

    My ooph was 3 months after finishing Chemo, my Onc was happy for me just to do Tamox without the shots for those three months, as long as I didn't get a period.

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited February 2010

    Pure,

    I'd take a break from surgeries and do the shot til you have your mastectomy.  The ooph recovery (for most) is very easy so it wouldn't add alot to the recovery period.

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited February 2010

    Pure...I agree with Bugs....your body needs time to heal....I started rads 3 weeks post chemo and had a shot of Lupron at the same time and started AI's.....about 6  or 7 weeks post rads, I had my ooph done laprascopically...it was a fairly easy recovery...

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