What are the chances of it coming back

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redninrah
redninrah Member Posts: 773
edited June 2014 in Second or Third Breast Cancer

Hi there, so ive just had a masectomy. Im reading this forum. So when one has chemo and masectomy, it can come back???????? what are the percentages. I thought with chemo and breast gone, it will never come back.......?

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  • CandDsMom
    CandDsMom Member Posts: 387
    edited August 2010

    Hi redninrah - I don't have the same diagnosis as you but they told me post BMX for multifocal ER/PR negative DCIS that my recurrence rate was 1-2% lifetime...It sucks right that we can have no breast tissue but still have a recurrence!  I guess it is because the BS can't get 100% of the breast cells out of there that these post BMX percentages exist.  Perhaps someone with more info for you can chime in...

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  • navygirl
    navygirl Member Posts: 886
    edited August 2010

    The short of the long of it, with early stage, is you just don't know. I know we'd like to think with a bmx and chemotherapy -especially if you add 5 years of hormone therapy on top of that, there wouldn't be ANY chance. But, the beast we know as bc just isn't like that; reassurance comes with time and with effort to make healthy changes. We can only do the best we can do to move on, and hope we never meet again. It's perfectly normal to want to know...what is my reality? I think we've all been there - but for me, the more time that passes the less I worry about if and when it will rear it's ugly head. I try to look at it like my worry isn't going to make it come back - or stay away, so my energy is better spent on enjoying the moments I have now.

    I hope you can come to a similar co-existence with the fear of reoccurrance...

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  • navygirl
    navygirl Member Posts: 886
    edited August 2010

    The short of the long of it, with early stage, is you just don't know. I know we'd like to think with a bmx and chemotherapy -especially if you add 5 years of hormone therapy on top of that, there wouldn't be ANY chance. But, the beast we know as bc just isn't like that; reassurance comes with time and with effort to make healthy changes. We can only do the best we can do to move on, and hope we never meet again. It's perfectly normal to want to know...what is my reality? I think we've all been there - but for me, the more time that passes the less I worry about if and when it will rear it's ugly head. I try to look at it like my worry isn't going to make it come back - or stay away, so my energy is better spent on enjoying the moments I have now.

    I hope you can come to a similar co-existence with the fear of reoccurrance...

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