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Breast Cancer
Archives for January 2008
Discussion List
prostheses or implants?
Hi. I'll be having a bilateral mastectomy and am wondering how any of you who have used prostheses have found it to live with them. A friend of mine says that hers causes her to sweat often and itch constantly. Is this typical? I'd never heard of this before. Hopefully some readers will be willing to share their…
Taxotere, Neulasta, Stage 4 Breast Cancer
Hello, I posted a question back in Dec about my sis who was diagnosed with Stage 4 BC in Feb 2007. She was on a hormone therapy for about 10 months and after they discovered a tumor in her brain and her breast tumors were increasing, they insisted on chemo. She began a taxotere treatment and just had her 2nd. Her white and…
Is Tram Flap that painful? Please give me any info
Hi everyone. My story is the 10th message down on this board. I have to go for this and need some advice. I need the blood supply to the radiation side. How long will the recovery time be? Is it that bad? Can you take the time out and tell me some of your story. I really appreciate any info you can give me. Its been a…
Reconstruction
Ok guys I am having quite a dilema. When I had my radical mastectomy they removed sooooo much that my chest is now concave. My dilema is should I go with implants or the tram flap. I am afraid that if I do the implants you will still notice that I am missing lots of fatty tissue should I wear a v neck. If anyone out there…
Diep Flap
I had DCIS with lumpectomy and radiation in 2001. Most recently, I had stage II Ductal Carcinoma in the other breast. I elected to have a bilateral mastectomy with expanders for implants at the same time. The radiated one got infected. After 6 rounds of antibiotics, and surgery to remove the expander, it was diagnosed as a…
Bilateral Mastectomy- Help with Sister's recovery.
In two weeks my sister is having a bilateral mastectomy and she has asked me to take care of her. I have no idea what to expect. Can someone please let me know what I can expect and what I do to make her recovery less stressful, less painful, less depressing, less anything.... I hate that she is going through this and I…
Two Lumpectomys and Looming MastectomyRecovery Time Needed!
Dear Forum Members, My grandmother is a 78 year old type II diabetic with high blood pressure. She has undergone 2 lumpectomies in the past 3 months, with the last on Nov 30th, 2007. She now complains of being easily fatigued and of trouble breathing. Her surgeon says that she must have a mastectomy within a month of the…
What do you think (about radiation)?
I want to hear some of your thoughts on my situation. The pathology report from my double mastectomy came back. The only cancer cells they found were in one of the 20 nodes that were removed, and a few in the location of the original tumor on the right side, none on the left (left mastectomy was prophylactic...never was…