Lumpectomy & Radiation

I was Stage 1A Invasive / Malignant / Metastatic / Ductal Carcinoma. My Cancer Surgeon only did Lumpectomy + 2 Lymph Nodes Removed with Only Low Dose Radiation & No Chemo. My Cancer Surgeon said she would Not Remove my Breasts even if it did Spread. She Left Both Breasts and 6 Months Out from Lumpectomy on Right Breast I had a Rapidly growing Half Dollar size tumor on Left Breadt. She did a Lumpectomy and No Treatment & I still have Both Breasts.

I was stage 1A, ER & PR+, HER2-. I had a lumpectomy in December, and my surgeon did the lumpectomy and breast conservation surgery at the same time with outstanding results. I had radiation in February, and now am dealing with lymphedema and a recurring seroma, but these are both responding to therapy and becoming less of an issue now. I am also on Tamoxifen, with almost no side effects (occasional night sweats and hot flashes, irregular menstrual cycle).

My understanding is that the oncotype is done with the lumpectomy/masectomy, and it is a more detailed genetic test that will give your doctors the likelihood of your cancer recurring. The oncologist (and radiology oncologist, if applicable) will use this information to help determine your long term plan. It took about a month after my surgery for the results to come back. Also, I didn't hear about the oncotype test until AFTER my surgery, so it probably hasn't come up in your consults yet.

I Begged my Cancer Surgeon to Take 1 or Both of my Breasts and She Told me that She Would Not Even Do that even if my Cancer had Spread. My Sister and All 6-7 of my Aunts On Dads side the Drs All left Both Breasts on till it was Terminal Cancer and Only Then did they take their Breasts. My Sister had 2A Staging with 6-7 Tumors in Lymph nodes Directly tied to Breasts and they Still Left them on. She had Rad and Chemo and Thanks to God is a 21 year Survivor this Year!

Have Stage 1 Invasive Breast cancer discovered on ultrasound, confirmed by mammography and MRI. Also have PASH on other side of same breast. Am studying my alternatives--they have left it up to me. Will meet with surgeon in 2 weeks, and radiation oncologist and oncologist who prescribes hormone therapy. It is very complex. Radiation is supposed to keep it from coming back in the same spot. Hormone therapy attacks the hormones that feed it as well as feed other possible future sites anywhere in the body, so think I am going to take hormones but which one is difficult to decide. I have DISH which is diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis so I have bone spurs in my thoracic spine and many other places as well. Don't know it will be affected?? Am also worried about my heart, blood clots and what anything might do to the PASH left in my breast on the other side. Does anyone know about these??