QuestionQUESTION: Thank you again for your response to my 8/1 question. You told me my breast cancer was Stage 1a and radiation should be enough if I did not test positive for Estrogen, Progesterone and HER2...I was negative for all 3 (rec'd the HER2 later as you implied). My question now is - I have seen the Radiologist and he says I can do the 4 week higher dosage radiation or 6 week radiation (up to me who knows nothing). In your professional opinion, which do you think would be better..I am a Type II diabetic and take meds for high blood pressure.
Thank you again.
ANSWER: Well this is more a matter of taste than of science. But let me put it this way. If this was a case where my wife would have this treatment I would probably - unless she was very inconvenienced by the trips back and forth for treatment - recommend her to take the slower longer treatment of 6 weeks. And I would do that in spite of the fact that I myself underwent 6 weeks of external radiation (& 2 sessions of intense internal Bucky radiation) more than 5 years ago for my prostate cancer (no surgery at all only radiation, my own choice - it seems to have worked well). To go back and forth for 6 weeks is not fun but it is a well known path! Good luck!
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