Archive for May 25th, 2010
Treatment/Therapies Confirmed
I’m pleased to announce some uplifting news that my oncologist shared with us yesterday.
With the depth of the breast tissue clean margins and the clean lymph nodes, he confirmed I will require no radiation or chemotherapy! That’s quite remarkable, almost unbelievable, considering the cancer that was present was wildly aggressive in nature. A second team of oncologists at Yale will be reviewing my pathology reports before I, myself, can truly believe such good news.
As usual, I continue to question everything and take nothing on “face value”. If you’ve been to this site before or followed the journey for a bit, you know it’s my suggestion to everyone when it comes to your health. We are all our own self health managers…it’s our body, it’s our responsibility…it does not just lie on the doctor’s shoulders. OK, I’ll hop off the soap box now :)
So back to what my therapy will be – I’ve opted to start Tamoxifen hormonal therapy to further reduce the risk of cancer returning. One pill each day for 5 years is the plan. It comes with side effects no doubt, but we’ll see how things go and for anyone reading that’s experienced the side effects, a comment here or a direct email to cancerbytheday@live.com would be greatly appreciated. The journey continues…. (she exhales and smiles)