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Has Anyone Refused Hormone Reducing Drugs?

A MyBCTeam Member asked a question 💭
Pennsburg, PA

I have had chemo and radiation. Next step is hormone reducing drugs.

Has anyone done the chemo and radiation
But not the drugs?

October 26, 2015
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I have been on all of the hormone blockers! Tamoxifen and anaztrozol , letrozol, etc after total hysterectomy. None have worked! I had a reoccurance on tamoxifen after 2 years. Then on letrozol after 13 months. Another reoccurance. Now taking falzodex injections and ibance pill. Who knows maybe i would have had a reoccurance sooner without meds, maybe not. Such hard decisions to make

October 31, 2015
A MyBCTeam Member

I had stage 3 bc and in 2 lymph nodes. I had chemo and rad and was put on tamoxefin couldn't stand the side effects was taken off of it and didn't take anything else that was 21 years ago.

November 14, 2015
A MyBCTeam Member

I did the blockers for one year the side effects to me was not worth it. I now use an alternative treatment and I feel alive and can do what I did before cancer. I did chemo but that was all didn't want radiation and not sorry I did not do it. read this book outsmart your cancer and it will give you a choice as what to do next.

October 27, 2015
A MyBCTeam Member

I quit tamoxifen after five months because of the side effects. My doctor ran the prognosticating calculator called NewAdjuvantOnline which showed it was only giving me a 1% benefit. Not worth it to me. That was 6 years ago. I was her2+ and ER/PR+ stage 2a, grade 3 - had mastectomy and chemo

October 29, 2015
A MyBCTeam Member

I have been on the blocker fir 3 years. I made my decision by thinking..if the cancer comes back, I want to knowi did everything I could and not think ...what is I had...

October 28, 2015

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