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Breast Cancer

Are your oncology appts./treatments on time?
I go to the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH for my treatments, and the wait is getting unbearable. Was wondering if all hospitals are the same? This hospital had a huge increase and remodeling of the Cancer Center within the hospital, but they have already outgrown it. It's so stressful for appts. to run hours…
Web pg update-old timer checking in
Hello to everyone! It's been perhaps 2 yrs since I was in here, longer maybe? *smiles* I recognize Tara & Jmears. Funny how so many of us fade out after time. Of course, some of us keep getting pulled back in with mets. My luck o' the draw. *shaking head* I have updated my lengthy web page while I am dealing currently with…
Has anyone has Canadian Fractination?
Has anyone had this new type of radiation? Does anyone know the difference between this type of radiation and the "norm"? I know it's shorter, time wise. My mom is doing well. Going for consultations and waiting on her Oncha (spelling?) test results to find out if she needs chemo. She is hormone responsive so she will…
Just want to say thank you
I found this area (chat) just browsing through various cancer websites. I'm sure I speak for many when I say thank you to so many for so much. This forum is so helpful, needed, appreciated, and necessary. Even though we have the loved ones that did stick around, it's so wonderful to be able to speak with, hear from, and be…
Need comfort? The old standby....
I once again visited the site that long ago SpongeBob shared with us....there are so many new faces, I thought I would share the site again: http://www.thesurvivormovie.com/ For anyone who knows someone fighting the beast...or someone who has found the beast... Hugs, Kathi
Just found out my mom has breast cancer
On Friday, my mom went to have her lump removed, it was determined at that time it was cancer. Tomorrow, she goes back into surgery to have any remaining cancer removed from the breast, have her entire nipple removed, and have the nodes tested to see if the cancer has spread. These past 5 days have been excrutiating. I am…
Bone Deterioration
Hi All, Back again and been a while since I've logged in. Almost at 2 years after chemo and rads. Went to see my onc., 3 months ago and to my astonishment, I am no longer 5'6". I have shrunk to 5'4" since stopping chemo. I am scheduled for an MRI for my C4 vertebrae (whiplash many years ago) and because the pain between my…
dance like no one's watching
After almost reaching a point of feeling discouraged because the Herceptin may have given me the side effect of decreased heart rate, I saw a cardiologist today. HOORAY! everything is fine, just having a normal fluctuation in rates. God has answered my call again. Just wanted to share some Good News! until later. Keep your…
How we're dealing
I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd update our life. My husband is 1/2 finished with the radiation for the brain tumors and is still feeling well. The fatigue is kicking in but we know how to deal with that from the last time. The Doctors were very happy that they were able to find a path to radiate that would not…
My Last Chemo is coming up April 10, 2007
I am looking forward to my last chemo, I think so far all my chemo AC/taxotere 4x4 3 weeks apart, handled all side effects pretty well. this last taxotere chemo is making me feel anxious. so I think the last one may finally do a number on me. But my concern is reading about Ms Edwards and Snow. I thought we are getting…
Soy
Are we(surviors) suppose to stay away from Soy and soy products?...I was just thinking(yikes!)..I've been eating some and I know somewhere or heard something that we are not to eat it? I'm just CoNfUsEd(rolling crazy eyes). Thanks :) Cindie from Georgia
Last Chemo today!!!! (but...)
It's almost 80 here in SC so Kathi, I could probably actually do a happy naked dance Now that my chemo is finished. Maybe I was still in a fog but after my mastectomy I thought that both my surgeon in NJ and my oncologist here were not recommending radiation after the chemo. I had 1 positive sentinal node and they took 8…
Recouping . . . sort of
Okay, I had a mastectomy in September (right side), followed by surgery 10 days later for a huge hematoma, then had a port put in about a month later. Chemo followed - November through January. Last Wednesday (March 21) I had a second mastectomy (left side) and port removed. This recovery is going fairly well except for a…
Finished Tamoxifen
I finished TAM this week and boy do I have a headache. Has anyone here finished it? What can I expect? Thanks
Two Year Surgical Check Up - And ALL IS WELL
Well.... made it past another check up.... and got another 6 month reprieve.... every time I have a check up I loose my mind for about 2 days.... and then feel great relief when the Doc says all is OK. So tonight I am starting one of Kathi's Happy Naked Dance lines... Take Care all. God Bless... Susan
Remission
Hello, i am a survivor of BC i have been in remission for about 2 months now. I just want to meet people that have gone through this so that i can get through what i am feeling. I feel sad and scared. I may be carrying a mutated gene that could cause me to get BC again and i am only 29, i keep thinking that i am going to…
3rd time trying to remove same lump...
I've had 2 mastectomies and 2 recurences, now in bones, so I can't help my in-law with this question...she's had several mammograms, marked with the wire, had a lumpectomy with the drain for a week, saw surgeon today and he said the pathologist and oncologist said he didn't get everything, so she has to have surgery AGAIN…
Don't want to be discouraged
So far so good, until now. I was diagnosed May06, did 10 cycles of chemo, had mastectomy, ovaries removed, radiation complete then began Herceptin. Took test for heart last week showed decrease in heart function. Now we have to determine if decrease is from Herceptin, maybe radiation. Will see doctor tomorrow and take ekg…
Possible Capsule Contracture
Hi everyone! It is always so nice to be able to come here to talk to you guys. It has been about 1.5 months since my mastectomy/reconstruction. I have been told that I might have capsule contracture (scar tissue surrounding my expanders). My expanders have ended up very far apart(about 4 inches and I have a very small…
Prayers for my sister
Hi everybody. Its been a few months since I posted. To make my story quick, I was dx in 2005; had partial mastectomy, chemo; rads; no hormonal therapy due to the triple negative dx. I'm surviving. Going through one of the devils scare tactics right now with a bone scan. Anyway, my post if for my sister who was dx in 2000…
Ten Years
It has been almost 10 years to the day that I was finally diagnosed with my own Breast Cancer. I can still remember that feeling hitting the core of my being where I knew deep inside of me that something was very wrong and didn't really have to hear it, it just was. There are times now, when I think oh how I have changed.…
tamoxifen causes weight gain?
i'm just trying to learn about the different treatments and medications involved with cancer. have any of you had to take this medication and what was your experience? i know everyone is different but i'd love to hear about your experiences. also is there anything better than tamoxifen or instead of tamoxifen? keeping you…
bone mets?
I have a question. As many of you know I have been battling severe hip pain for the last several months. At first I thought it was residual pain from the Neulasta shots but after a couple of months went by the pain persisted. My onc sent me to my ortho. He thought that I had developed bursitis in both hips as a result of…
Thanks You All
Thanks for the well wishes in messages, It is so nice to feel connected and this site has given me that for so many years. Sad to be connected in such away but now wouldn't have it any other way. I do so appreciate the sharing of information because learning has never been a bad thing for me. One in nine women in my…
Recurrence Breast Cancer
Hi all ..More news re my posting on 12/16.. I have now found out I have mets on my 8th posterior rib it is nearly eaten away! also two small nodules on the lung one is stable but the other is new raising the possibility of plumonary mets...this report from the CT scan,,Bone scan reported also the 8th P rib but there is a ?…
More questions
Hi again everyone. I asked about swelling before and got some very helpful info but I don't think I was very clear as to the nature of my swelling. I had a mastectomy, clear nodes, stage 1 on January 17. The swelling is not in my arm but right under my arm...at times feels like I have a "smurf" football hanging there. It…
Update
Well I don't understand some of the rational out there for preventative medicine. My friend the one who had to fight to get her skin cancer spots removed and then found she was loaded with lumps in both her breasts. I have heard way to many times now how lumps have become cancerous tumors later on and not all lumps that…
Resvert and Carnivora? Anybody take these?
The surgeon who performed my mom's surgery suggested she take these supplements. I wanted to know if anyone else out there has taken these and if they are ok.
breast swelling
To anyone who may be able to help. I finished Radiation treatment on July 21st 2005. 6 weeks later I noticed that the breast that had had the Lumpectomy on was increasing in size. I had a check up appointment with my Radiologist who just didn't seem interested in my concern. I have bought an expensive sports bra as several…
AN UPDATE!!!!
We went to my mom's doctor's appointment yesterday to get the reports and pathology from the surgeon. So far the results look good but an oncologist has yet to look them over and give his/her opinion, tell us what stage she is in, and what treatments she will be receiving. All of the spaces for prognosis throughout all of…

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