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Breast Cancer

Cysts
Asking for thoughts/experiences I can pass on to Son's Lady. I have no experience with cysts - my IBC just appeared one day. About 5 - 6 weeks ago she had pain and found a lump. She saw a Dr and was g…
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Started by Rague
Most recent by SIROD
Dec 9, 2011
Breast Cancer
OT - 'Col. Potter' died today.
Most of us know who 'Col. Potter' ( Harry Mor4gan - MASH) was. He passed today - the 70th Anniversary of the. "Day that will live in infamity" - Decmber 7 1941 , Pearl Harbor.
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Started by Rague
Most recent by SIROD
Dec 9, 2011
Breast Cancer
Happy Neck News
I saw my trusted neurosurgeon yesterday. He is the one who worked a miracle on my lower back when my facet joints disintegrated and caused my vertebrae to slip out. This caused severe nerve pain. I we…
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9 comments
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Started by CypressCynthia
Most recent by laughs_a_lot
Dec 9, 2011
Breast Cancer
For the Record
I am not a victim, or suffering from, or a walking breast cancer and am not disfigured. I am a human being who has been diagnosed with breast cancer (three times) and I am flippin awesome!!!!! and so …
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Started by carkris
Most recent by laughs_a_lot
Dec 9, 2011
Breast Cancer
Please make sure you are in control of your body!
I started having Mammograms and yearly check-ups when I was forty, just like I was suppose to. When I discovered my tumor it was already over 2cm. ( I was 50 yrs old) I didn’t really think it could be…
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12 comments
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Started by Nana C.
Most recent by mamolady
Dec 9, 2011
Breast Cancer
My ornament "s"....Arrived
Oh my gosh!!!!! What a delight to open my mailbox today! Our pink sister, CalvertCrafters, is indeed quite the " crafter" Inside the box was a felt mitt..which held all sorts of goodies...each individ…
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3 comments
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Started by MAJW
Most recent by LoveBabyJesus
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
OT bra strap slippage :-)
I don't want this to sound like an advertisement ... but ... since my lumpectomy my bra strap on one side was always sliding down and I'd have to do the reach inside my top to keep pulling it up. A fr…
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Started by tgf
Most recent by Rague
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
Remembering MaMaG today...
Today was MaMaG's Birthday - for those of you who 'knew' her here - sadly, she passed on Feb 7 of this year - keep a special thought of her today and say a prayer or send all your positive energy to h…
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27 comments
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Started by jennytwist
Most recent by Kylez
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
im new,sadly. has anyone started their treatment with hormone theapy?
I actually have a small spot on my shoulder as well. Hormones and bone strenghting meds, then maybe radiation. Im 56.
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16 comments
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Started by trixytwo
Most recent by survivorbc09
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
Great Pink Bus ride!
This was a great ride today for me. Jan thinks that the small lump I feel along arm is a small tear in the muscle where it attaches to to bone. Don't remember the exact term but the 'pink areas' are s…
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Started by Rague
Most recent by VickiSam
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
O.T. Cookie night tomorrow (Fri)
I have GNO (girls night out monthly with 3 friends) each month...this week we are doing our annual Christmas cookies...fun times and good treats! We have all known each other since Kindergarten-gradua…
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Started by disneyfan2008
Dec 8, 2011
Breast Cancer
I am newly diagnosed
I was diagnosed last week and my doctor ordered an MRI to rule out the left breast and lymph nodes. Left is clear but lymph node is suspicious. Dr. called me yesterday to do a nother biopsy on Monday.…
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5 comments
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Started by confused11
Most recent by Frankie Shannon
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
Started new chemo and he added herceptin???
This was a surprise yesterday. He said I was on the cusp of her neg/pos and nothing else was working so he was able to get approval from insurance so I started on it yesterday with the loading dose. I…
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17 comments
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Started by camul
Most recent by Kristin N
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
ohmygosh - missed out on ornament exchange!
--didn't realize I'd been away for that long...! The pain in my upper arm still hasn't gone away but the oncologist's np did finally order an x-ray. They say it's perfectly fine and that there's nothi…
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3 comments
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Started by jendrey
Most recent by Jean 0609
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
(OT) Police raided my next-door neighbor the day of my biopsy...
March 26, 2010.. about a 1/2 hour after I got home from biopsy, police raided the townhouse next door. Here's what became of it. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/clay_man_gets_20_years_f…
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3 comments
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Started by JuJuBeez
Most recent by jennytwist
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
Got mine today
WOW! Whoever got me my ornaments knew me quiet well. I LOVE,LOVE, love my teapot ornament and also the cat hugging the dog one. How did you know that I am crazy about tea? And now I actually got cats …
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1 comments
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Started by aysemari
Most recent by carkris
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
Secret Santa
How about some clues here as to the identity of my Secret Santa??? The only thing I know is that she is from Kansas and works in Missouri. I'd like to thank her for the box of goodies that included a …
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6 comments
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Started by linpsu
Most recent by carkris
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
First Zometa Infusion...
Had my first infusion of Zometa this morning...went off with out a hitch! Chemo nurses at my cancer center are awesome! Now for the interesting part....one of the side effects is flu like symptoms...s…
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8 comments
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Started by MAJW
Most recent by carkris
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
Silicone Implants before Radiation?
Hi everyone, First I want to thank everyone for the advice and support.Your kind words have ment so much and today has been a much better day.I know that I will walk into my first chemo treatment with…
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6 comments
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Started by fighting4five
Most recent by KitKatKat
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
New to Zometa? Here is some info that may help...
Many here are on zometa and wonder about side effects. I am posting this in hopes it will help. Zometa is a bone strengthening drug that is used to help in the treatment of bone metastasis. It hardens…
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6 comments
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Started by CypressCynthia
Most recent by CypressCynthia
Dec 7, 2011
Breast Cancer
O.T.
who else has already mailed their Christmas cards? Denise...
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9 comments
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Started by disneyfan2008
Most recent by disneyfan2008
Dec 6, 2011
Breast Cancer
It's Dutch St. Nicholas day today!!!!
http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/netherlands/ Hugs to you all! Kathi
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4 comments
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Started by KathiM
Most recent by VickiSam
Dec 6, 2011
Breast Cancer
My cherished ornaments arrived!
I just want to send a huge cyber hug and a great big "THANK YOU" shout out to my sweet sister Penny (aka Carkris)! They are beautiful, wonderful, lovely and are happily adorning my tree along with my …
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5 comments
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Started by sea60
Most recent by VickiSam
Dec 6, 2011
Breast Cancer
Cleaning products
We talk about our diets, sleep and stress but I wonder if most of you have changed to environmentally safe cleaning products.My friend did that as soon as she was dx 16 years ago.I told her about a Ge…
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5 comments
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Started by Lynn Smith
Most recent by laughs_a_lot
Dec 6, 2011
Breast Cancer
Scar tissue
My body loves to make scar tissue after surgeries. I had a bilateral mastectomy that my doctor botched on June 8, 2011. 9 weeks later a plastic surgeon had to clean up his mess and remove breast tissu…
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5 comments
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Started by jazz53
Most recent by cinnamonsmile
Dec 6, 2011
Breast Cancer
Starting chem Wednesday and my Chemo Class is Thursday, What should I know??
Is there anything I should do to prepare or have going in on Wednesday? It went well. I did have positive nodes. They did ct scans with and without contrast on the 30th and I had a mediport put in on …
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8 comments
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Started by cntgobck03
Most recent by MNGirlyGirl
Dec 5, 2011
Breast Cancer
Scheduled First Chemo Appt. Today
I just scheduled my first chemo appointment today for January 5. I am scared to death. I'll be taking Taxotere and Cytoxan. Can anyone share their experience with this cocktail? I understand it is dif…
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18 comments
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Started by MNGirlyGirl
Most recent by MNGirlyGirl
Dec 5, 2011
Breast Cancer
how many have had
Surgery and got path. reports back -missed some cancer and had to go back within week or two for more surgery? Denise Happened to 2 friends of mine (one few years back and one last week)
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19 comments
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Started by disneyfan2008
Most recent by disneyfan2008
Dec 5, 2011
Breast Cancer
Vision: Has anyone had their vision deteriorate?
Shortly after receiving chemo (which ended in this May) I noticed the vision in my "right" eye has deteriorated to the point where everything is pretty much a blurr. I used to have good vision in both…
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16 comments
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Started by BetsyJane
Most recent by Heatherbelle
Dec 5, 2011
Breast Cancer
starting chemo Monday
Hello all hope every ones Thanksgiving was a good one . Mine was had 4 of my 6 kids with me,was a great day!! I start chemo on Monday scared to death but want this monster gone out of me. I will be ge…
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27 comments
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Started by KitKatKat
Most recent by susie09
Dec 5, 2011
Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

Cysts

OT - 'Col. Potter' died today.

Happy Neck News

For the Record

Please make sure you are in control of your body!

My ornament "s"....Arrived

OT bra strap slippage :-)

Remembering MaMaG today...

im new,sadly. has anyone started their treatment with hormone theapy?

Great Pink Bus ride!

O.T. Cookie night tomorrow (Fri)

I am newly diagnosed

Started new chemo and he added herceptin???

ohmygosh - missed out on ornament exchange!

(OT) Police raided my next-door neighbor the day of my biopsy...

Got mine today

Secret Santa

First Zometa Infusion...

Silicone Implants before Radiation?

New to Zometa? Here is some info that may help...

O.T.

It's Dutch St. Nicholas day today!!!!

My cherished ornaments arrived!

Cleaning products

Scar tissue

Starting chem Wednesday and my Chemo Class is Thursday, What should I know??

Scheduled First Chemo Appt. Today

how many have had

Vision: Has anyone had their vision deteriorate?

starting chemo Monday

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