2006-08-06 00:02:55 · 6 answers · asked by atonye toin 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
No, if there can be anything 'good' about breastcancer, this is it. Hormone ER/PR receptive can be treatet with Hormones, so it doesn't come back.
Mine is 95% receptive for both and the doc has me on Chemo, after that Radiation and after that Hormone for 5 years.
2006-08-06 00:20:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is a double-edged sword. I am ER+ and Her2 +. Yes, I can take Tamoxifen for the 5 years, but it also means that my tumors thrived on estrogen. My doctor explained it as being like adding fuel to the fire. So while I can take the drug for the 5 years (I have 3 years to go) I guess I will always have the fear of having estrogen in my system. Plus the whole thought of becoming pregnant again (I am 31 now, 29 and pregnant when I was diagnosed)....I don't know if that is still an option.
It all boils down to cancer sucks. That's the long and the short of it.
2006-08-06 15:15:48 · answer #2 · answered by BriteHope 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the area i'm in now. i'm taking Arimidex, an estrogen blocker which i grew to become into informed grew to become into my terrific wager in dealing with the main cancers. surgical operation does not help. I did have radiation when I had a extensive tumor in my neck. It helped. I nevertheless experience some thing, yet I comprehend it is scar tissue. I definitely have been informed that if the main cancers is in my lungs or liver i could have chemotherapy, regardless of if it won't make me stay longer. i could in basic terms be having chemo if it may make me extra gentle for some reason. when I had chemo initially in 2000 I felt so sick from it that it is tough that it can be used for palliative reasons. they don't seem to be going to therapy it. with a bit of luck, i will save this below administration as long as accessible. initially you cry plenty as you attempt to return to words with this. i'm taking Paxil now, an antidepressant which facilitates a great purchase. i'm getting on with my existence the terrific i will. i will nevertheless artwork and discover that artwork keeps my techniques off of myself the terrific.
2016-11-03 23:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an Onco nurse and have treated all kinds of breast cancers with chemotherapy and radiation. I think it is the luck of the draw. No one breast cancer is worse than the other.
2006-08-06 04:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by happydawg 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,they r good,if ur breast cancer is hormone receptive then it can be cured easily,it means ur cancer can be cured by hormones along with radiotherapy.
2006-08-06 00:56:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please see the webpages for more details on Breast cancer.
2006-08-06 01:08:18 · answer #6 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋