Mastectomy before chemo?

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Hello, I have just finished all my treatments last week and now when I should be putting it all behind me I am finding that I am getting myself worried and anxious again.  The reason for this is I had my mastectomy first followed by chemo and rads but most others on this forum seem to have had chemo first? The plan was originally for me to do that and then it changed as surgeon had a spare slot for surgery and I was getting stressed out so 3 days later I had surgery.  I am probably being silly but have others had surgery first?  I also had lymph nodes affected which were cleared out at time of operation.  I know I have to trust that the team made right choices but would help me to know others had it this way round too.  I just want to move on and stop worrying! :open_mouth:  Will that time ever happen??  I seem to be over analyizing everything! :open_mouth:

 

MM

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Hi MM
I had MX and lymph clearance prior to chemo too. My understanding was that chemo was often given before lumpectomy to shrink the tumour before surgery to try to conserve more of the breast. As I had two tumours in different locations of the same breast, it was always going to be a full mastectomy for me so it was done first.

I think this is pretty common… in fact I think everybody on the August chemo group had surgery first. xx