While there are many different types of chemotherapy and the degree of the side effects can be change from medication to medication, the truth is that all chemotherapy regimens have serious side effects that cannot be avoided. What is chemo-lite? Most women mean, “Can I have chemotherapy that has very little, if any side effects?” The truthful answer is, “No.” Chemotherapy is a cocktail of medications that kill cancer cells, but they can also kill healthy human cells. She asked her breast surgical oncologist if she could have “chemo-lite?” But she was also going to need chemotherapy. Lilly saw a breast surgical oncologist and had surgery to remove her cancer. She got “the phone call” the next day, the one where the radiologist tells you that you have breast cancer. She laid on a faux-soft table, had goop slathered on her breast and a needle “gently” stuck into her breast – multiple times. So Lilly had an IV started in her left arm, she crawled onto a cold, metal board and had her Breast MRI.Īnd then came the biopsy. The radiologist wanted to do a Breast MRI first and then a needle biopsy. The radiologist informed Lilly that she thought the lump was a cancer. So much jelly and goop and pressing and scanning.
This was followed by an ultrasound followed by another ultrasound but by the radiologist this time. She had a mammogram and then she had an extra-squeeze mammogram, the one where they squeeze even harder. That day at the Breast Center was a day Lilly will never forget. She called her doctor immediately who arranged for a mammogram.
Lilly had found the lump exactly one month ago.
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