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notblue
notblue Member Posts: 4
edited June 2014 in IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)

I am elated that Angelina Jolie is showing as an example to have her breasts removed.  However, I feel almost offended.  Am I just being selfish? I feel that maybe all this money being thrown away should be used to better detect breast cancer, and in a younger population. I am in my 30's with no family history, and was negative for BRCA testing. There has to be a better way. I am worried about radiation, does it hurt? or make you sick? please help.

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  • notblue
    notblue Member Posts: 4
    edited June 2013

    help with radiation

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  • msphil
    msphil Member Posts: 1,536
    edited June 2013

    no radiation didn,t make me sick, I had it 5 days a week for 7 wks and it wasn,t bad just had to lay still for that 45 min,  msphil(idc,stage2, 3 nodes, l mast, chemo and rads and5 yrs on tamoxifen) Praise God I am now a 19 yr Survivor)

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  • firestorm531
    firestorm531 Member Posts: 176
    edited July 2013

    Rads only takes about 5 minutes once you're in place for the machine... I did end up with some radiation burns under my breast and along the side where my lumpectomy and node removal incisions were; it was painful but healed fairly quickly once I finished up my treatment (5 days a week for 6 weeks).

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