Hi everyone. I have just returned from hospital after getting my biopsy results. I have IDC stage 2 ER+ HER2-
I have been booked in for a mastectomy on the 28th of this month. I go for my pre assessment on Friday.
The choice was a lumpectomy and radiotherapy or mastectomy. I am 65 next month and felt this was the right decision for me my husband fully agrees with me, I did feel the breast care nurse thought I should go for the lumpectomy but I asked the consultant, who is going to be doing the OP, if I was his mother what would he suggest to her, he said in that case he would suggest a mastectomy, but he stressed it was up to me. He was a lovely man and I felt at ease with him. He explained about the sentinel lymph gland removal. I also have a form of tachycardia which worried me if I had to have radiotherapy as it is my left breast that’s affected. As I got home I suddenly thought how do they ever check if you get cancer at a later date in the lymph nodes as you wont be having a mammogram on that side? I realise I may need a further OP and treatment if they find anything in the lymph nodes but for now I feel happy with my decision. Sorry for the rambling post!