Stage II (Stage 2) Breast Cancer

You choice to have bilateral mastectomy has certainly reduced the likelihood of a new cancer in the same breast and vastly reduced the chance of a cancer in the opposite breast. Adjuvant chemotherapy (and hormonal therapy when indicated) has reduced your chance of recurrence. Oophorectomy has diminished your chance of ovarian cancer.

It would be glib to say "don't worry". I just read an article by a survivor of endometrial cancer who thinks about her cancer 24/7. Thinking about cancer will be inevitable for someone who has undergone treatment. I advise my patients to reverse their thought process, think about the cancer not coming back, rather than it coming back.

I strongly recommend regular exercise, which has been shown to reduce recurrence rates.

When a patient misses a followup appointment with me, it means they are not dwelling on their cancer, and are off doing other things, and that's good. You choice to have bilateral mastectomy has certainly reduced the likelihood of a new cancer in the same breast and vastly reduced the chance of a cancer in the opposite breast. Adjuvant chemotherapy (and hormonal therapy when indicated) has reduced your chance of recurrence. Oophorectomy has diminished your chance of ovarian cancer.

It would be glib to say "don't worry". I just read an article by a survivor of endometrial cancer who thinks about her cancer 24/7. Thinking about cancer will be inevitable for someone who has undergone treatment. I advise my patients to reverse their thought process, think about the cancer not coming back, rather than it coming back.

I strongly recommend regular exercise, which has been shown to reduce recurrence rates.

When a patient misses a followup appointment with me, it means they are not dwelling on their cancer, and are off doing other things, and that's good.