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Breast Cancer

Archives for January 2017

Mets to hip bone and new drugs j
Jan 30, 2017 - 6:39 am I have anal, colorectal sigmoid/rectum, breast and non Hodgkins Lymphoma. I have done chemo/ radiation and am still doing it but I was in the hospital last week and my left hips was popping and hurt did a PET and bone scan. My hip has bone cancer . I had surgery. I still have a temporary ileostomy…
Stage 4 update
I havn't been on here in a long time, a lot to deal with. I caught pheumonia over Christmas and had a relapse in the new year, doc's gave me a very poor prognosis (won't make it til Christmas/New year etc.) I am still here tho, but things have changed a lot, I am having some very strange thoughts and hallucinations about…
Newly diagnosed, surgery soon
I am new to this group. I was diagnosed with DCIS, stage 0 on 1/9/17. I am scheduled for lumpectomy on 1/31 and will follow with radiation tx. Feeling some pre-surgery nervousness. I am feeling need for support from others. ACS has made referral to their Reach to Recovery program, but still waiting to be matched with…
Weight loss caused by tamoxifen???
Hello Ladies, My husband finished his chemo in late August and radation in mid October in 2016. He has been on tamoxifen since the comlpetion of radiation. He has been doing well and feeling good except occasional sleep trouble. He has been exercising ever since he started his chemo. He started working recently. He lost…
healing of a broken bone
I broke my shoulder skiing on new years eve, on my left side the same side of the breast cancer. I wasn't doing anything extreme, I just toppled over. It was a very minimal fracture, ( I think it was more of a crack). When I saw the orthopedic surgeon in the beginning of January he said that I would be in a shoulder…
Explaining cancer to young kids.
I have a recurrence of breast cancer diagnosed in August of last year. I was fortunately able to avoid chemo but am about to have surger, not sure how extensive yet. I may lose my entire reconstructed breast. My grandkids range in age from 1-6 and I see them regularly, some daily. How did y'all explain your cancer to the…
Scans after treatment
I'm 42 and just started Tamoxifin a month ago, i'm terrified of the side affects considering it could lead to other cancers. My oncologist told me that for breast cancer there are no "scans" done anymore. He would just see me 2x a year and thats it. I'm a bit concerned about this and want to know what you all think? I have…
Hershey Pinks 2017
Voice nearly gone afrer radiotherapy - help!
My wife has nearly lost her voice after radiation treatement for breast cancer and can't get it back to normal - has any one any suggestions to remedy this or help to get her voice back a little - Consultant is please with her other progess after chemotherapy but her voice is so poor she is depressed and embarrassed.…
Breast cancer stage 4
Looking to connect with stage 4 estrogen + HER2- Mets to bone and liver survivors.
The Truth About Cancer... a Global Quest
Starting tonight.... an amazing series... "The Truth About Cancer... a Global Quest" Episode 1... "The True History of Chemotherapy and the Pharmaceutical Monopoly" https://go2.thetruthaboutcancer.com/agq-encore/episode-1/?utm_campaign=agq-2017-01&utm_medium=email&utm_source=maropost&utm_content=2017-01-17-2356# Anyone…
View from Here
yep.....back on the old soapbox again.....I may need to explain why I get upset when people come on these boards talking about how they have cancer and even though there are treatments available, and some have proven to be effective, they decided for whatever reason to just not do any of it. Then name your topic something…
To Chemo or Not to Chemo
For anyone out there who's trying to decide, I had an experience that made me glad I did. My MO has had me have a CT scan every 3 mos since last March. There were some nodules in my lungs and she was watching them to see how they would react to the chemo. She said, "if they disappear or get smaller, we can assume it's…
Effexor + Arimidex = ?
Hi friends - I just started my arimidex (ER/PR+, HER2-, single mastectomy, oophrectomy) and I am completely depressed and broken, but petrified of anti depressants. I keep telling myself that depression is just a function of the trauma of having breast cancer and being dropped off the menupause cliff with the ovary removal…
Just getting started and nervous
I was diagnosed at the end of November with IDC stage 2, triple neg, with BRCA1+ mutation, neg lymph nodes. After a month of additional testing my MO and SO decided that chemo before double masectomy. I had the port placed last week and had my 1st round of carbo/taxol. I had minimal SE (thank goodness) this time. I will…
thyroid issues after breast cancer treatment
Hello everyone, I hope everyone was able to enjoy the holidays with family and friends.. I went to the dr the other day and they check my tsh levels.. My tsh levels are elevated meaning I have an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) which would explain the weight gain even when I don't eat much and the extreme tiredness.…
Journal
Who else used a journal through their journey with BC? I got one as a gift and felt silly writing in it-once in awhile I come across it and read it-i forgot much of the stuff i wrote-but it was a good way to vent and get it out. Denise
Has anyone choosen prothesis vs. reconstruction
I am newly diagnosesd and am 74, active and feel 40. I will have a tight mastectomy on Jan. 24. I cannot find anyone to to talk to me about prothesis vs reconstruction. I beginning to think that reconstruction is the way to go but I really don't relish additional surgeries. I have not been able to find anyone in my age…
Immunity boosting?
I finished radiation in October. Ever since then, I feel like I fall to every single cold, stomach bug, etc. that goes around. And I have a much longer recovery time than others. Is this normal post radiation? How long does it last? Has anyone found anything to boost immunity? Thanks!!
Just diagnosed in September 2016
I was just diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy that showed 2 types of breast cancer.....ductal and lobular. Unable to get all of the cancer, I am having a mastectomy on January 24. I have spoken to many women who have had reconstruction but I have only found one woman who wears a prothesis. I am 74 and…
9 yrs Jan 2008
2008 Started my ordeal with B/C- all good so far.. IN a few weeks Ill be booking the PINK bus for a road trip for my mammo. 2 lumpetomies (same side)-radation, 5 yrs tamoxifin, total hsterctomy (from med) 2nd lumpetomy Happy to say was for scar tissue from first surgery- i was not sorry i had the surgery-NOT knowing would…
Just needing to talk
my mom just found she has cance again and we started fighting over small things and I'm finding my self saying mean or hatefu words and I just need someone to talk to.

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