Breast cancer is not a single thing; there are various kinds. My wife had something called ductal carcinoma in situ. The surgeon took about ten minutes in his office to remove the milk duct (I was there), sewed her up and prescribed radiation. We went home and the radiation oncologist arranged treatment. She had five radiation sessions and then three years of tamoxiphen and that’s that. The biopsy definitely showed cancerous cells, but there was no spread outside of the duct. I can only hope that that is what you have.
There was a bit of pain until it healed, but nothing she couldn’t take.
It’s been almost 9 years since I got the C-bomb dropped on me. TL : DR - I’m doing fine now. I almost didn’t have that biopsy, because they thought it was scar tissue.
It wasn’t.
My experience was my experience, and yours will be yours. Hugs to you and yours. I actually found the most supportive comments weren’t “You’ll beat this for sure!” but instead, people saying things like “Your life is really going to suck at times over the next few months.”