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Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D.Sweden
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I`m a doctor of medicine and a specialist in radiation therapy and medical oncology. I have long experience in diagnostics and treatment of breast tumours. | |
Minas T Chrysopoulo, MDU.S.
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Breast reconstruction and scar healing questions only please. |
This is not uncommon. You probably have quite dense breast tissues and they can react this way sometimes. There is no good treatment for your problem unfortunately. But it also makes future breast cancer
Dear Jean, your primary problem is your breast cancer NOT your heart or lungs! So I do recommend that you accept the suggested radiation therapy! Its risks are anyway small (I have myself had radiation
No I agree with your doctors. The main reason for the lymph node evacuation during surgery was to find out if your cancer had spread. We already have the answer to that. Radiation therapy in combination
Well, radiation is radiation. However if we consider the risk/benefit situation in your case it is quite evident that with your family history the rather small risks associated with mammography in your
Calcifications in breast tissues MAY be associated with breast cancer (some but not all are). Dense breasts are MUCH more difficult to evaluate by mammography. So to sum it up I do agree with your doctors
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