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Old Nov 17, 2006, 03:45 PM
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My friend with beast cancer had her masectomy, then chemo (the drugs) then radiation. I think they mostly want to get rid of the problem and then they make sure there's nothing remaining. But for some cancers that might be hard to operate on or are slow growing/don't move to other parts of your body, they might try to "shrink" or get rid of them with radiation first.
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