u/nagooro10

Posting on my wife's behalf.

My wife is 39 and was recently diagnosed with late stage 2/early stage 3 breast cancer (HER2+, ER/PR-). She’s already started chemo (round 2 of 6) and targeted therapy, so we’re not at the surgery decision point yet, but meeting with the surgeon at the end of the month where we need to have a better idea of the surgical route.

The current major dilemma is lumpectomy vs double mastectomy. For those that went the mastectomy route, do you have any on going issues from it? ie. nerve pain, etc?

She already has chronic pain and fibromyalgia so adding on more daily pain is a hesitation. She also has dense breasts, so if we went the lumpectomy route, not sure if imaging would always catch new cancers..

We've been back and forth on this topic and she's slightly leaning towards a lumpectomy due to the chance of added chronic pain with a mastectomy, provided the oncologist will agree to proper monitoring (ie. MRI's due to dense breasts)

Thanks and appreciate any input.

Hi everyone,

My wife is 39 and was recently diagnosed with late stage 2/early stage 3 breast cancer (HER2+, ER/PR-). She’s already started chemo (round 2 of 6) and targeted therapy, so we’re not at the surgery decision point yet, but meeting with the surgeon at the end of the month where we need to have a better idea of the route we want to take.

We're trying to get a better sense of how people felt about their surgical choices after the fact.

For those willing to share, what surgery did you choose and why? Do you have any regrets and wish you did the alternate?

Also wondering if genetics, or chance of recurrence played a role in your decision.

Thanks for any input!