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Can I ask some Questions?
I am Susan and new to all of this. I have a couple of questions and wonder if I could get some of your input. First, did anyone go to Sloan and if so what did you think? Second, I have my appt next Wednesday and am wondering, do they just put you in the hospital and do the surgery or wait a couple of weeks since I am…
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test?
I went to the dr yesterday. Can anyone tell me the difference between a Just a CT scan and a PET scan? thanks
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Breast cancer spread to jaw bone
I have had bone mets in many locations for about 18 months and it has now spread to my jaw. The lesion is 1.7 and very visIble. I will have 10 -12 radiation treatments for swelling and pain next week. I would like to find someone who has also had the mets spread to this location. I can't find many people who have had this.…
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ultrasound is over
Thank you for your prayers. Sandis I hope your biospy turns out as we all pray, normal! Cyst was scar tissue left from radiation and may be there for years!!!! As long as it is not cancer back I can live with it. Inkblot your words are always wonderful. I have printed many a letter and taken it along on chemo and radiation…
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One other thing
I am not afraid or angry or numb...just annoyed really...annoyed that I have to miss work...and that I have to listen to all these bone headed doctors....I have always known medicine was called a practice for a reason...but in military medicine it takes on new meaning..it looks something like this...a good doctor (ya know…
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update pain after mastectomy
Hi everyone, First let me thank everyone who answered my e mail questions. I am happy to report my pain level has even out and only find discomfort once in awhile. I had an infection in my breast and this is what was causing the extreme pain. I know have an appointed on wednesday oct 15th at Fox Chase Cancer Center in…
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Anxious about biopsy
Finally, after 3 weeks I have an appointment to see the plastic surgeon who reconstructed my breasts. I wrote earlier about a lump on the scar from the non-reconstucted breast. Now I have two lumps in the reconstructed breast that had cancer (they remind me of the initial lump). I'm having trouble sleeping and getting…
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misleading info
Last week, I watch a breast cancer segment on the Today SHow. A woman opted for a bilateral mastectomy as a preventative measure. The show left the viewers believing a bilateral mastectomy would be insurance that there would never be any future breast cancer. WRONG......we know here that not all breast tissue can be…
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Life after Tamoxifen
This just published by the New England Journal of Medicine. It shows real promise for those of us currently on a 5 year treatment of Tamoxifen. THE STUDY involving more than 5,000 women with the most common form of breast cancer was suspended halfway through its planned five-year timespan because of the surprisingly strong…
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My Question
Hi! My name is Flo I live in NC outside of ft. Bragg. I am 37 and the mother of 5 girls and 1 boy. I had a lumpectomy in early 2001. I found my cancer by accident, an overzealous intern wanted to do a complete work up and included a mammio due to family history, grandma and mom died of breast cancer. In any event...I am…
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TUMOR MARKER
I had my first check-up with my docotr since being treated for breast cancer. Everything was normal, but I have a question. What does the test for tumor markers indicate? Mine's was in the normal range - whatever that means. Thanks to everyone on this site, it is very informative.
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Act Now, End Breast Cancer!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, more than 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women will die. Join the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's fight against breast cancer. Click on www.ActNowEndBreastCancer.org to take action and send a free letter.
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I'm Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Girls, I'm back...sorry I've been away so long, I an happy to report I am in remission and just needed a break from all the cancer related things in my life. I've been in remission now for a year and am feeling great. My last biopsy was in Feb of this year, but it was clear thank God!!!!!!!!. I have gone back to law…
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Need help with Taxotere....
I've done two of four rounds of Taxotere. First treatment was horrible..suffered severe side effects. Ocologist has to reduce my dosage by 25% so I could function. One thing I've noticed is that I have blood under my nail beds that shows up after treatments. My onocologist is baffled. He says Taxotere should have been an…
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Pink and White M&Ms
Chemoqueen1 & Others. Masterfoods USA, A Division of Mars, Incorporated had their "Help Line" respond to the question about the pink & white M&Ms, where part of the proceeds to to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation. Here are the stores that are supposed to be selling them: Albertsons, CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens, Winn…
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Zometa - delayed side effects(?)
To those taking Zometa or Aredia, did you ever have delayed side effects - or am I experiencing something else. First infusion caused a lot of pain for three days after - Fri, Sat, and Sun and then got better than before the infusion. Second treatment was Thursday - some extra pain Friday and then an EASY Saturday and…
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I'm beginning my journey.
Thank you very much for all of your help so far. Tomorrow morning I am getting on a plane from south Georgia (not my real home) and heading to NYC to Sloan Kettering. I am very lucky that my brother lives there and I can stay with him and his family and that my parents will come when surgery happens. That Jack will be…
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In a Panic...
Hi, I had breast cancer surgery in January (simple mastectomy with immed. tram flap). I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma, stage 1, with NO lymph node involvement. Had 4 rounds of AC chemo from March to May. Now have been on Tamoxifen since July. Off Tamoxifen from mid-August to mid-September to see if the…
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3 year survivor
I am now considered a 3 year Cancer survivor! I am reposting what I wrote after the first year, because I still feel the same way if not more so.......... God has been good to me! Cancer has given me a new beginning, an appreciation for life that I did not have before. Before , I was alive, but I was not living! I was…
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I'm back, good news
Hi all, I am sorry I dropped off the map for awhile. I had surgery to remove my ovaries about one month ago. The recovery time was a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I am feeling great. I am so glad I made the decision I did. I feel more energized and healthy without my ovaries than I did with them. I actually…
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Am I expecting too much from my husband???
I know ya'll are probably sick of me asking these questions, but I appreciate your feedback tremendously. Sometimes I don't know what is normal or not. Last Wednesday I had my first round of Taxol. I was really nervous about it, because I didn't know what to expect. I also had some questions for my Dr. My husband took…
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Pink and White M&M's
Thank you all for your postings. I did find them at CVS. I really appreciate your responses. I know I can always count on my friends here.
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went back to work and hear different comments
I started back to work and hear different comments like did a lawn mower run over your hair or you look like a boy you need a wig and one person said why aren't you wearing bras and I said I 'am she said no the kind with protesis and I thought to my self I'm comfortalbe the way I am . I'm a people greeter at Wal-Mart so I…
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African-Americans Side Effects
African-Americans out there, please advise me of some of the side-effects you have had during and after being treated with breast cancer. My skin developed rashes, my nail turned dark and brittle
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Pink and White M&M's
There are supposed to be specially packaged pink and white M&M's for breast cancer awareness month. But I have not been able to find them. I have looked at Walgreens, Kmart, Jewel Food Stores, Dominicks. Any other suggestions ?
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prayers
Please everyone, put my friend Jean on your prayer list again. Jean was doing real good and getting good check ups and her Mom told me yesterday everything is going wrong. The spot on her lung,and one on the bone are getting bigger and she is afraid they will take her out of the study group. Please pray for Jean. Cinder
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Hello! I've missed You All!
Been away for nearly a month. I'll update you all. I continue to have an open abdominal wound from the reconstruction. Found a new MD. My insurance doesn't participate with him (or the other way around). Having my insurance work at getting his services covered and plan to have a revision and clean up job on my belly in…
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NOT TO DO RADIATION
I'M INTERESTED TO KNOW IF ANYONE DECIDED NOT TO DO RADIATION AFTER THE DR RECOMMENDED IT?
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Nightmare
My fiance was diagnosed with breast cancer last Friday. The doc did a core biopsy and he said yesterday that is stage 1 duct (I can't think of the correct term). He said that he can't feel any swollen lymph glands (she is thin) and we have made an appointment Monday to talk to him further. We both are doing a lot of…
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HAIR CARE
I a Black female, 47 years old I completed my chemo treatment in February and radiation in May. I need some advise on how to care for my hair, it has started to grow out (about 2 inches long) but it has come back with a lot of gray and thick. Is it to early for me to get a perm? Any advise will be appreciated concerning…