Guest guest Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Not , but I do know that some Onc's and Surgeons do the Chemo first, in hopes of shrinking the tumor and being able to get cleaner margins. I myself had my Mastectomy first as I had 3 rather large tumors, with 5+ lymph nodes, I am also Stage 3. julie i have to ask why are they doing chemo before the masectomy? that would truly concern me...my partner had cancer stage 3 and in the lymph nodes on the right side she too had a masectomy she elected to do a double masectomy so that she wouldnt have to worry about recourrence on the left side...and then did chemo after the masectomy to make sure they killed all the cancer cells they say could be running around the body and not able to be seen. would be interested to know. katherin Vicki K.DFW/Texas & My YorkiesLizzie, Annie(PMR Rescue), Molly Moo (Rescue From Korea), Tee Tee (PMR Rescue) My Sweet Shayleigh 10-18-00--03-31-03My Little Audrey (PMR Rescue) 09-91--10-06-03Tribute To AudreyTribute To Shayleigh Our Yorkie Kid's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 thanks vickie can always learn something newJVK105@... wrote: Not , but I do know that some Onc's and Surgeons do the Chemo first, in hopes of shrinking the tumor and being able to get cleaner margins. I myself had my Mastectomy first as I had 3 rather large tumors, with 5+ lymph nodes, I am also Stage 3. julie i have to ask why are they doing chemo before the masectomy? that would truly concern me...my partner had cancer stage 3 and in the lymph nodes on the right side she too had a masectomy she elected to do a double masectomy so that she wouldnt have to worry about recourrence on the left side...and then did chemo after the masectomy to make sure they killed all the cancer cells they say could be running around the body and not able to be seen. would be interested to know. katherin Vicki K.DFW/Texas & My YorkiesLizzie, Annie(PMR Rescue), Molly Moo (Rescue From Korea), Tee Tee (PMR Rescue) My Sweet Shayleigh 10-18-00--03-31-03My Little Audrey (PMR Rescue) 09-91--10-06-03Tribute To AudreyTribute To Shayleigh Our Yorkie Kid's How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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