is it possible to go through rads more than once?

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tovahsmom
tovahsmom Member Posts: 196
edited June 2014 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After

I am 4 months out of rads. I just had my 3 month follow-up mammo which showed more clustered microcalcifications in two new areas and I will be facing my third surgery.

I had a biopsy of one area 2 days ago but they couldn't reach the other area because it was too close to the chest wall so I have to have a surgical biopsy. 

Of course I'm hoping its not more DCIS but if it is, I am wondering if one has to go through rads a second time around. Also, it seems hard on the skin and I wonder what the risk of more cancer there if you overradiate the breast.

Anyone know?

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited May 2010

    Standard of care is one go at rads.  My rad onc claims she's radiated someone (or more than one person?) twice, but my rad onc prides herself on being a rebel.

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  • pj12
    pj12 Member Posts: 25,402
    edited May 2010

    It was explained to me that you only could do rads one time to the same tissue.

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  • tovahsmom
    tovahsmom Member Posts: 196
    edited May 2010

    THANK YOU!!!

    So glad to hear that as rads was a pain in the a-- and I really don't want to do it again.

    I had to travel an hour each way to rads and I just don't want to have go through that all over again.

    Sweatyspice, who is your radiation onc? Mine is Formenti at NYU. I know I probably asked you this already when we spoke back in the fall but I forgot. 

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  • CTMOM1234
    CTMOM1234 Member Posts: 633
    edited May 2010

    Patricia - When I received my DCIS diagnosis, my BS gave me two options: Mastectomy or lumpectomy w/ rads. I chose the lump. w/rads. He explained that rads were a 1 time only thing and that if the DCIS did reappear in the same breast, I'd need to have a mastectomy.

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  • mom3band1g
    mom3band1g Member Posts: 817
    edited May 2010

    Anyone know what happens if you have a mast with rads and it comes back?

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  • tovahsmom
    tovahsmom Member Posts: 196
    edited May 2010

    CTMOM, thanks for telling me that. My first reaction was "oh my god!" I hope my DCIS didn't come back. I will find out from the path report next week, but my BS already told me that if it did, he would just go in through the same biopsy incision and take it out. He never mentioned mastectomy to me. I hope that is the case.

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  • sweatyspice
    sweatyspice Member Posts: 922
    edited May 2010

    Formenti.

    I was also under the impression that if it came back, standard of care would be a mast.  I hope you have benign results, tovahsmom, and don't have to go any further with any of this!

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