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LULU2178 ---- Where are you? Worried about you !!!
Lulu, I have been waiting for a post from you to let us know how you are doing. I have thought of you everyday since you posted about your problems. I hope you recieved help and please let us know how you are doing, ((( HUGS ))) Pixie
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when you were little, what did you want to be?
Something made me think of this, but when i was little, i wanted to be a go-go dancer! I swear! I grew up in the 60's and it was the rage! I would put on my sisters white lipstick and white go-go boots and dance, lucky you-tube wasn't around then! Of course, now I am shy about dancing. But, anyway, i was thinking about…
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Swollen & painful lymph nodes in armpit
Hello All, I am new here. I am throwing out this question to see if anyone has had a similar experience. I am a 7 year breast cancer survivor. For the last 5 weeks I have had tenderness to the touch with not much swelling to my left armpit. (The opposite side of where I had breast cancer 7 years ago). I went and saw my…
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I do not get on daily-thinking of booking the PINK bus
Anyone want to ride along on the pink bus...NO cancer related totally , but my gastro Dr is sending me for ultra sound on my liver and bone scan...but company would be great. Sat AM for both tests, (KILLING two birds with ONE stone) Denise
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Making Strides
Sunday my husband and I will be walking in the American CANCER Making Strides Breast Cancer walk! Our 2 y/o grandson (babysitting while mom and dad work) will be with us as we all sport our team shirts with this slogan cancer touched my ta ta's so I kicked it's a** and a cute pic of a beat up jack! Our other son and DIL…
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Panic and Dread
OK, so I'm done with it all. Chemo was over in June. Radiation was over in early September. The cancer was Stage 1, triple negative, and my prognosis is good. So why do I lay awake at night and just KNOW that it's going to return. Why do I think about it almost every waking minute? I have read that this is normal, but how…
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Switching from Tamoxifen to Arimidex......
I have not been on the board for a year or so. But I do check in from time to time. Everything is going well, no side effects from Tamoxifen. I had to change onologist because of new insurance. I have taken tamoxifen for 4 years, but new doc ran blood tests saying I am post menopausal and so she wants me to be on arimidex.…
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Arimidex side effects
Hello all. Been off the boards for a long time, just busy with life! I had been taking Tamoxifen for 2 years and after a long discussion with my onco doc, decided to switch to Arimidex. I wasn't really having any intolerable side affects from the Tamox, but decided that the supposed side effects of Arimidex were less…
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Bilateral mastectomy in my future
As I posted about last month, I recently found out that I carry the PALB2 genetic mutation. My family was part of the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this past August on breast cancer risk and PALB2, that also got a lot of media coverage. I’ve now met with a geneticist and a genetic counselor, as…
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Free to someone if -------
Free to someone if only you cannot afford to buy.I have 5 surgical hats and a nice pink ball cap with sequins on it that I want to give free to someone that is taking chemo that has lost your hair. My daughter gave me the surgical hats to wear because I could not stand anything tight on my head. They are of different…
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Surgeon didn't remove lymph node Ca
* Diagnosed Oct 2013-breast lump. * Needle Biopsy performed on suspicious enlarged lymph node on 11-2013. * Surgery to remove breast lump and some lymph nodes on Dec 20 2013. The biopsy performed on a suspicious enlarged lymph node in Nov. of last year was marked with a titanium clip for location/identification. The…
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Update-after over 3 wks Friend knows what type of cancer-such a LONG time of the unknown
Please keep close family friend's (KNOWN since birth) husband has been in the hospital for 9 days and still no exact type of cancer-he is critial-many blood transfusions. Her mom died of breast cancer after years reoccruances, she her self have had lung and VERY bad breast cancer -remission right now...SO SHE HAS HAD HER…
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Bra for Right side Mastectomy
Hello, it will surely be appreciated if someone can suggest to me what to do as far as a bra is concerned. I had a right side mastectomy with reconstruction, I don't know what to do as far as a bra is concerned. Thanks.
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Looking for information from experience
Hi all, I was diagnosed with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma in early July, and then from the pre-surgical MRI we found multifocal Invasive Lobular Carcinoma. So, I just had bilateral simple mastectomy on October 2nd, with auxiliary lymph node disection. Thankfully, my lymph nodes were clear, but the margin of one of the tumors…
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From Her2 positive to negative
I started off triple positive, went through six rounds of TCHP then surgery- my surgical path report now shows me Her2 negative- thus I am being taken off Herceptin- has this happened to anyone else?
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O.T. Mini get away
we snuck away (without our grandkids-who go on EVERY vacation with us) for 4 days camping in Vt...the leaves were super-great colors. We took a gondola up a ski lift and hiked to the top of Stowe Mtn. Sunny and windy dialy-poured when we got home to NYS-so we times it perfectly. Denise
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Mets looking to start chemo**TAXOTERE**
Howdy! I'm looking for input again and your experiences. Here's the short story: diagnosed with mets to liver and lymph nodes in September, started on a study program looking at the efficacy of 3 drugs together, have only had 2 treatments with fulvestrant, and am now looking to start to chemo. I've had an infection and…
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Not the Phone Call I Wanted
Greetings! I posted here several years ago. Back then the path report from a lump was negative. I was worried and got wonderful support here!!! Call from my wonderful doctor this evening .. path report (different breast) shows cancer this time. I'll start reading up on some new things...Oncotype DX to start! Will know more…
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Pre Calcifications (feedback & comments)
Hi All. Just had my yearly mammo & ultrasound done last Friday. The 3d mammo picked up some small precalcifications in my right breast. I heard the word micro. This was not there a year ago & the doctor said since it is not that close to the surgical scar, they want to have it biopsied especially with my history. Doctor…
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I am home!
A late and kind of crazy late night discharge last night - home at 9:30 PM. I am home on TPN/lipids/insulin - all via my port to strengthen me up for my upcoming battle. I see the onc on Thursday and my biopsy should be back then. I now have a fentanyl patch for pain that seems to be keeping me a bit more comfortable.…
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Multiple Primary at 50
This summer, I was sent for my usual mammogram, but the doctor added a thyroid ultrasound because of a goiter. Within 3 months, I had been diagnosed with breast cancer (the biopsy showed IDC, but the final pathology showed both IDC and ILC with 3 separate nodules), thyroid cancer (a particularly aggressive type,…
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Hey Valentine Bambino**
Just saw where you had answered a post from 2003....but of course realized that you were Totally New and had just joined us........... Keep reading and keep posting....we are all here for YOU and Each Other***
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Glowmore I agree with you
Glowmore, I do agree with you about Puffin. She is a great person for coming on discussion board and giving great advice. I am sure this is due to her education that she has in teaching medical students in nursing. She always details everything great and even if you are feeling bad she can put a smile on your face also.…
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Study of woman who have completed chemo
Dear Survivors, LOOKING FOR WOMAN WHO HAVE COMPLETED CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a oncology nurse practitioner masters student at the Univ. of South Florida. My thesis is on women who have undergone adjuvant chemotherapy for a diagnosis of breast cancer. The study is evaluating muscle and joint pain…
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stage 1, grade 2, opting for no chemo?
Okay. So I was diganosed with Stage 1, grade 2, BRCA+. I had a double mastectomy with reconstruction 5 weeks ago. Healing well. I was given option of chemo or no chemo. I had one doctor support a no chemo decision, based on a possible benefit of only 3%. The medical oncologist is recommending it. Who would do it based on…
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failed reconstruction
Hello, My name is Nancy and I have had a total of 8 surgeries between both breasts. I have had a partial mastectomy, following a Double mastectomy with expanders put in, then removal of left side Expander because it didn't expand due to radiation and another one placed but failed again. I decided To do the Latissumus Dorsi…
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Another Update and a Glimmer of Hope
Everyone's fear with my pancreatic mass has been that this is a new primary cancer. It is rare for breast cancer to metastasize to the pancreas. Primary pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis (unless caught early) and is treated with higher doses of chemo. Today, I received an email result from the gastroenterology group…
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Happy Belated Birthday - October 13th to Molly Z
Sorry for the belated Birthday greetings Molly Z - Hap Hap Happy Belated Birthday wishes Vicki Sam
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Update - Concerned
Sooooo, I am hoping that I am wasting my time worrying about nothing but...about a year ago my oncologist found me to be woefully anemic. My ferritin (back-up iron) levels were 3. So I had a colonoscopy and and endoscopy to try to find a bleed and nothing was found. My oncologist then gave me 5 iron infusions and sent me…
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CANCER IS CURED ???????????
Hello Everyone, hope I can get some answers here, Why do ONCS tell their patients that they are cured from cancer and then put you on a hormonal, or AL drug to keep it from coming back. And then you have to keep going back so often for 5 years or more for test, I have heard that some ONCS are putting their patients that…