Heart Scan and Hysterectomy....

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angel23
angel23 Member Posts: 28
edited March 2014 in Breast Cancer #1
I keep learning every time I read all of your gracious comments.. What is the heart scan before chemo? Also I had read that if you were est/prog/ positive, that a hysterectomy(at least ovaries removed) ... Whats that all about??? Just keep feeding me more information, I am so grateful for all of you!!

Angel23

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  • tommaseena
    tommaseena Member Posts: 1,769
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    Heart scan
    Some people are on chemo meds that might cause heart problems so a heart scan or echo or muga are done through treatment to make sure there is nothing happening to the function of your heart. I have one every three months.

    Margo
  • angel23
    angel23 Member Posts: 28
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    tommaseena said:

    Heart scan
    Some people are on chemo meds that might cause heart problems so a heart scan or echo or muga are done through treatment to make sure there is nothing happening to the function of your heart. I have one every three months.

    Margo

    Heart to Heart
    Thank you Margo, that makes sense. I have no family history of breast cancer, but lots of heart problems..... I keep learning.... I am very grateful for feeding me information that I am clueless to..... Heart to Heart.....


    God Bless,

    Angel23
  • confused123
    confused123 Member Posts: 251
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    angel23 said:

    Heart to Heart
    Thank you Margo, that makes sense. I have no family history of breast cancer, but lots of heart problems..... I keep learning.... I am very grateful for feeding me information that I am clueless to..... Heart to Heart.....


    God Bless,

    Angel23

    Angel, when BC metasticizes
    Angel, when BC metasticizes it often does in the uterus so many wome opt for a hysterectomy. Also if you have hormone positive cancer removing the uterus and ovaries decreases the amount of hormones in your body. This is how I understand it anyway. I am going to go to a high risk specialist at some point to discuss the hysterectomy for myself. It looks like menopause at 33 for me.

    Kim
  • DianeBC
    DianeBC Member Posts: 3,881 Member
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    They sometimes want you to
    They sometimes want you to remove your ovaries if you are ER and PR positve as the tamoxifen you might take for hormone therapy can cause ovarian cancer. So, that would take that one risk away. Also, your ovaries do produce estrogen and you want all of the estrogen out of your body.

    I, personally, would never have a hysterectomy for any of those reasons. It is one surgery that I don't want and so many women have a lot of other problems after it is done. One is that their bladder falls down and they have to construct a sling or something to hold it up.

    Good luck Angel!
  • survivorbc09
    survivorbc09 Member Posts: 4,374 Member
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    confused123 said:

    Angel, when BC metasticizes
    Angel, when BC metasticizes it often does in the uterus so many wome opt for a hysterectomy. Also if you have hormone positive cancer removing the uterus and ovaries decreases the amount of hormones in your body. This is how I understand it anyway. I am going to go to a high risk specialist at some point to discuss the hysterectomy for myself. It looks like menopause at 33 for me.

    Kim

    Some women have their
    Some women have their ovaries removed or a hysterectomy to try and make sure they don't get ovarian cancer. I will not personally, but, a lot do. Also, a lot of women that take tamoxifen end up having to have one because of all of the problems with it.
  • maya00i
    maya00i Member Posts: 42
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    I had a muga scan,ultra
    I had a muga ascan,ultra sound,echocardiogram. This tells the Doctor what kind of Chem you can have.I could not get the best stuff because my heart would not take it. But Doctor told me that did not mean I would get cancer again. Never heard of the hysterectomy. Maybe because I had one about 20 years ago.

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