Questions for RO

Hello, Ilovethemoon! All of this is a game of odds and statistics, and making the best call with that info. On one hand you had a small, hormone+ her2- tumor and no positive nodes, which gives you good odds. On the other hand, you're young with a long life to hopefully live disease-free, with a higher oncotype and closer margins than you'd like. In the end it's up to you to make those calls and take those odds. I will say, of all the treatment I've had (chemo, mastectomy, radiation), radiation was by far the easiest on me, so that piece of extra security has been worth it for me. It's a long time commitment of getting to radiation every day/ potentially taking time off work, but it's a BRIEF amount of time each day for actual treatment, if you're not going to a large hospital with a long wait, and if the time commitment isn't a major inconvenience, you really don't have anything to lose (& will likely have a low dose/fewer days than those of us with positive nodes!). Even if you respond poorly to radiation and end up a bit burnt, it doesn't last and is over when it's over! But in the end, you really have to weigh all the given factors in your own situation. For me, chemo was hard on me, surgery was hard on me, but radiation has been the easiest of all my treatments so far, and was well worth the added nuisance and discomfort.