Post-op Options: Breast Cancer

Will begin treatment post surgery next week. Would appreciate input about options. I am told that I need 5 wks. of radiation, and chemo? I don't know what they will suggest yet. They found the margins of the lumpectomy clear and no lymph node involvement. Now what??

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I had a successful lumpectomy, with clear margins and no cancer in the sentinel lymph nodes. In spite of that I am told I need 5 wks. of radiation and chemo also. Anyone else been given this treatment for similar outcomes??

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I had 36 radiation treatments and they wanted me to follow with the tamoxifen pill...started the pill for two months every day and found it messed me up....anxiety attacks and panic attacks...quit taking it until I talk to someone about it, the side effects are not good......

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Like you, my lumpectomy had clear margins and no lymph nodes were involved. I had radiation treatment which was OK, no side effects. They put me on Tamoxifen for five years. I'm off it now. Because no lymph nodes were involved I didn't have to have the chemo that makes your hair fall out. I think I was more scared about what they were going to put me through than the cancer.

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