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I had chemo both before and after surgery. I agree with PJ that it's best to go with your oncologist's recommendation for a technical treatment issue like this. A huge advantage of the neoadjuvant chemo is that the doctor and you can actually see the tumor shrink (or not) so that you know whether the chemo is working and switch to a different drug if it is not. Chemo before surgery is used to shrink the tumor to make surgery easier, and to kill any cancer cells already wandering around your body in situations where the doctor is concerned that tumor cells may have spread.

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