Most breast cancer patients experience some side effects from their treatment. It largely comes down to the type of treatment (although your general health is a factor, too), which depends on the stage of your cancer. “Early-stage breast cancer is breast cancer that hasn’t spread beyond the breast or axillary lymph nodes and can include stage I, II, and some stage III breast cancers,” says Sara Nunnery, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine in hematology/oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, TN.
