What's my cancer doing 1 month or so past mastecomy.

Oh, last time I updated, it was all about clear margins, clean nodes. A positive outcome and a possible signal to the end of treatment. Just a little radiation, and we are good to go.

Well.

It's still good!

But, now that we are past the surgery, there are some addition things to think about, the tumor while non agressive, and typically non matastising, it was large, 7cm x 5cm x 3cm, now my arguement is my boob was pretty big, so proportionally, that's not terrible, right. Well, it is good....
But they want me to get chemo, and radiation, they will want the tamoxifen too, but I don't think so at this point.
So, here is their reasoning, chemo plus radiation is recommended if, there is lymph node involvement (no), or not clear margins (mine where clear) or it's estrogen progesterin negative (mine are positve) or the tumor size is over 5cm.

One out of four. Crap!

So, pre surgery, we did some blood tests, to test for certain protein markers associated with my type of cancer, the CEA and the CA 15, I might have posted my numbers, anyway, I'll recap if I have.
My preop CEA was 31.5 or so, normal is between 0.0 to 5.0, my post op value is 6.5, still above normal, but greatly reduced, it might possibly continue to fall, or might normally be a bit high, it's still suspect, the CA-15, was high preop and is now in the middle of the normal range.
I did a bone scan yesterday morning, and everything is good there. Today I did a barium and contrast ct.

But even if everything is good - they are going to recommend chemo, because of it's size. I tried to get out it, but the truth seems to be- there isn't information of what happens if I don't do it, based on my tumor type, only that my "odds" "chances" "the statistics" are good if I do the chemo and radiation.

On one hand I feel railroaded - a commodity in the cancer factory, on another hand I just want it to be over, just do the fucking treatment, and I should be able to go about my business without a care in the world. At least about cancer.

So, that's the update.

Now, I guess I get to think of fun hat ideas.