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How Do Doctors Decide If You Will Need IV Chemo Or Pills?
It depends on the stage and bio markers. A larger timer, 1 cm or greater for triple negative or Her2+ generally is chemo first. For smaller tumors, sometimes they do surgery first, and then chemo. For invasive, hormone +, tumors 0.5 cm or larger, Onco Type testing is done on the surgical pathology. If it yields a higher number, chemo is recommended since it had a high risk of recurrence.
Oral chemo pills are used for metastatic, and high risk for certain bio markers.
Your doctor should be able to explain this.
Wishing you well!
If it’s just for chemo, I think some products come in IV forma and other ones in pill form. So it will depend on what you need.
Doctors decide whether you will need intravenous (IV) chemotherapy or oral chemotherapy pills based on several factors:
- Type of Breast Cancer: The specific type of breast cancer you have
- Stage of Cancer: How far the cancer has spread.
- Lymph Node Involvement: Whether cancer is present in your lymph nodes.
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