Mastectomy AFTER chemo

Battscave
Battscave Member Posts: 14
in Breast Cancer #1
I just completed my first chemo last wednesday and today I feel like I am actually part humnan!
I am due to go back to have another visit with my surgeon who performed my 2 lumpectomies back in Feb in 2 months for a check up.
Is it too late to ask for a mastectomy then? I dont want to go through radiation, nor do I have any love what so ever for my breasts now. I want them both gone.

Thanks for any thoughts

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  • camul
    camul Member Posts: 2,537
    #2
    I think others on this board
    I think others on this board decided on a mastectomy after a lumpectomy. I would talk to the surgeon about it. I opted for the Mastectomy with chemo, rather than a lumpectomy with radiation, but that was 10 years ago and I never regretted my decision. Others here have been very happy with the lumpectomy.

    Good luck on whatever you decide.
  • Battscave
    Battscave Member Posts: 14
    #3
    camul said:

    I think others on this board
    I think others on this board decided on a mastectomy after a lumpectomy. I would talk to the surgeon about it. I opted for the Mastectomy with chemo, rather than a lumpectomy with radiation, but that was 10 years ago and I never regretted my decision. Others here have been very happy with the lumpectomy.

    Good luck on whatever you decide.

    Thank you. I just hope the
    Thank you. I just hope the option is still there for me to take when I get to see her again. I am very comfortable with removing both. No love lost at all. :)
  • MAJW
    MAJW Member Posts: 2,510 Member
    #4
    camul said:

    I think others on this board
    I think others on this board decided on a mastectomy after a lumpectomy. I would talk to the surgeon about it. I opted for the Mastectomy with chemo, rather than a lumpectomy with radiation, but that was 10 years ago and I never regretted my decision. Others here have been very happy with the lumpectomy.

    Good luck on whatever you decide.

    Had ...
    I had a lumpectomy, chemo and radiation.....after chemo, I must say, FOR ME, radiation was not a big deal at all....just having to go 5 days a week, for 6 weeks was the n in the butt!

    Everything is a personal decision...we have to do what we feel is best for ourselves....

    I wish you we'll....
    Hugs, Nancy
  • DebbyB
    DebbyB Member Posts: 86
    #5
    mastectomy
    I am now waiting for a surgery date for a double mastectomy (looking like mid-late April)

    This decision was after I had a lumpectomy, chemo and radiation, finished the Monday before Thanksgiving. (honestly, I agree, other than going in daily, radiation wasn't as bad as I my head said it was going to be).
  • Penny67
    Penny67 Member Posts: 65
    #6
    I opted for a double
    I opted for a double mastectomy when I only needed the left side. I also ended up doing radiation as I had trace amounts in 2 lymph nodes. I initially was under the impression that mastectomy meant no radiation which I found out is not true. It depends on factors such as age, percent of cancerous nodes, location of the tumor and size of the tumor. I wish you luck in your decision (I have no regrets and I finished all my treatments February 29).
  • BunnyJane
    BunnyJane Member Posts: 213
    #7
    Penny67 said:

    I opted for a double
    I opted for a double mastectomy when I only needed the left side. I also ended up doing radiation as I had trace amounts in 2 lymph nodes. I initially was under the impression that mastectomy meant no radiation which I found out is not true. It depends on factors such as age, percent of cancerous nodes, location of the tumor and size of the tumor. I wish you luck in your decision (I have no regrets and I finished all my treatments February 29).

    Double mastectomy after chemo
    I had a double mastectomy after lumpectomy and chemo. About half way through the chemo I decided that I would not be able to go through chemo again (later in life) if I had a second local breast cancer. In addition, there were many suspicious areas on the 'good' breast. By the time I finished chemo., I decided that my breasts weren't my friends at all and they were trying to do me in! Based upon family history and some other factors, my medical onc. also recommended a double mastectomy in Dec. 2009. I haven't had reconstruction yet. No regrets!

    Jane
  • Verna j
    Verna j Member Posts: 1
    #8
    BunnyJane said:

    Double mastectomy after chemo
    I had a double mastectomy after lumpectomy and chemo. About half way through the chemo I decided that I would not be able to go through chemo again (later in life) if I had a second local breast cancer. In addition, there were many suspicious areas on the 'good' breast. By the time I finished chemo., I decided that my breasts weren't my friends at all and they were trying to do me in! Based upon family history and some other factors, my medical onc. also recommended a double mastectomy in Dec. 2009. I haven't had reconstruction yet. No regrets!

    Jane

    Lumpectomy to mastectomy

    I had a double lumpectomy  two months ago. Had cancer in both breast . Was going to do radiation but when i went to my oncologist and got my reports i decided to do chemo a double mastectomy after .  i have a lot of family that have cancer.  Never to late to change your mine and that what i did before i did radiation.

  • Puffin2014
    Puffin2014 Member Posts: 531 Member
    #9
    Verna j said:

    Lumpectomy to mastectomy

    I had a double lumpectomy  two months ago. Had cancer in both breast . Was going to do radiation but when i went to my oncologist and got my reports i decided to do chemo a double mastectomy after .  i have a lot of family that have cancer.  Never to late to change your mine and that what i did before i did radiation.

    old post

    welcome to the site, just a note though that the post you responded to was from 2012

  • Moj
    Moj Member Posts: 1
    #10
    I did all my treatment chemo

    I did all my treatment chemo then radiation then had a double mastectomy with tissue expanders put in for implants later.  I am in CANADA, don't know if things are different in the States.

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