Hi bird25,
Thanks for posting. If you would like to get opinions of other women, you may want to post on the treatment section of the forums. Once we have replied we do lock these posts whereas the other areas remain open.
It’s understandable you are scared about making a treatment decision especially when the treatment plan has changed. You mention already suffering with severe anxiety.
Sometimes it’s clear when someone does or doesn’t need to have chemotherapy as part of their treatment for breast cancer. In other situations, like yours, the benefits may be less clear so often the oncologist will leave the decision to the patient. Some people will decide to go ahead with chemo and others decide not to.
It’s important your treatment team have given you enough information about the potential benefits and drawbacks of chemotherapy in your individual situation to help with your decision. Sometimes they use a decision aid such as NHS Predict.
We wonder if they said more about the traces of cancer in your lymph node they found. Our information about lymph node surgery might be helpful as it explains more about testing lymph nodes.
We also have information about hormone positive (oestrogen driven) breast cancer.
It sounds as if it would be helpful to talk to your treatment team again about his. You could contact your breast care nurse to talk this through and perhaps ask about more support with your anxiety. Your GP can also help with this.
We also have a range of other support services that might be useful at this time.
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