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Clinical Trial for Metastatic TNBC Now Recruiting
CF33-hNIS-antiPDL1 for the Treatment of Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer Description This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of CF33-hNIS-antiPDL1 in treating patients with triple negative breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic). CF33-hNIS-antiPDL1 is an…
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33 with lump and pain. Dismissive consultant.
Hi there everyone, I'm just looking for a bit of advise and support after coming from the hospital feeling very dismissed. I'm 33 years old, estranged from my family so have no idea if there's any history of BC because I haven't seen any of them since I was 18. About 3/4 weeks ago I started to get a sharp stabbing pain in…
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Zoladex rebate
Hello! I started getting in-office Zoladex a few months ago. I have a commercial insurance plan. I see that there's a co-pay card online, but it says if you get your injections in a doctor's office you can apply for reimbursement with proof of payment and an EOB. I looked at my EOBs on my insurance website, and everything…
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A couple of informative articles on management of ER+ MBC
Some of the esoteric (brain fog at the moment) but useful information are in the detail which lead to chasing down references for more. Nguyen Standard of Care in Hormone Receptor–Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: Can We Improve the Current Regimens or Develop Better Selection Tools?…
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Crying, scared, blind-sided 50 year old.
3 weeks ago I was healthy. I had recent blood work that showed all my numbers were excellent. And then one morning I woke up with pain in my left breast. I thought I slept on it wrong somehow and waited until the following day to check it. That's when I found a lump. It was going into the weekend but I managed to get an…
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Increased blood pressure....
Hi all I have been taking anastrozole for about 9 months and have had increasing blood pressure since then. I don't know if it's the anastrozole causing this, but I've never had blood pressure problems. Has anyone else had this?
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Hoping it's justscar tissue
I'm 3.5 years after treatment. This morning in the shower I noticed a half-dollar sized area near my scar, where I'd also received extra boosts of radiation, was a little bit pink. I thought it might be just a heat reaction, which happens sometimes, so checked on it a couple hours later. It hadn't faded, and I'm now…
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Unhappy with Reconstruction (pics) FEEDBACK NEEDED!
Hi I had my exchange in October and right away noticed massive rippling particularly on my cancer side. I got a second opinion from a Stanford surgeon who said my breasts look amazing and he wouldn't advise attempting to change anything as it likely won't improve or it would make things worse. He said my outcome is a…
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Breast MRI shows a chest wall enhancement
Hi everyone, So I’m almost 3 years from first being diagnosed and I got a follow up breast MRI and I have a non-mass like enhancement to the lateral chest wall (same side as my cancer). The radiologist said “could be from treatment but metastatic malignancy should be considered. I feel like the radiologist knows it’s…
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Implant VS Flap reconstructions experiences
Hi, i am newly diagnosed with high grade DCIS. I am going into surgery end of May. My plastic surgeon has given me 2 options: direct-to-implant VS flap (from abdomen). I never give birth and it will be a unilateral masectectomy. She has explain to me the pros and cons. Anyone was in my situation before? I understand…
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Recurrence within a few months?
I just finished my last Herceptin/Perjeta infusion 3 weeks ago, marking the end of my active treatment. I completed TCHP in September (just continued the HP part of it to carry out the full year for HER+), and completed radiation in February. I had a bad scan 2 weeks ago, which I thought couldn’t possibly be anything…
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needing support
Hi all, back after my MRI in Sept-they found fat necrosis in my left breast--everything else ok-- of course in September I was only a little worried-but now I go back on 3/29- and a little anxious-- I am trying to reassure myself with the report from then which was "unlikely to be malignant" but you know how it goes....…
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My ILC friends
I’m curious. I will have had chemo, DMX , and radiation and Tamoxifen when all is said and done. I was stage 3 because of the larger size and a few suspicious lymph nodes. But they were never tested before chemo and after surgery they were negative. I also got an over 2cm or more margin all around. I know this is a dr…
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One down, one to go
Hi everyone. Little background I went for my first mammogram and they found an asymmetry on the right breast that could not be seen well on u/s and one on the left that they classified as a mass that is non-circumscribed and hypoechoic and determined both needed a biopsy. I was given a Birads 4. I had the right side done…
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Help needed for Treatment options (if any)..
I am a recent member of the group and was diagnosed with De Novo stage IV, Triple negative with mets in liver and lungs. I was diagnosed in Oct 2020. i belong from Pakistan and my doctors are of the opinion that my cancer has spread too much for them to do anything (chemo,Radiation,Immunotherapy) about it. I am writing…
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Keytruda q3 wks and now elevated liver enzymes
I went through all the chemo for tnbc and finished in Nov 2021. Got the PCR and had a lumpectomy in Dec. Radiation for 20 sessions just to be safe. I started with Keytruda when I was on taxol/carbo and have continued Keytruda every three after surgery. My enzymes were slightly elevated last time but I still got the…
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Edge knife radiation of brain
I am scheduled for the imaging and planning of upcoming Edge Knife radiation to my brain. I had one mass, large at 4.2cm. I won’t know how many sessions until next week, but so far they think around five. I am about four weeks from the resection. It was in the occipital and parietal lobe area, so the upper back part of my…
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Dense Breasts and History of Breast Cancer
I have dense breasts - Category C - Heterogeneously Dense - and was diagnosed with breast cancer in my right breast 7/29/21. I had a lumpectomy and just finished 16 rounds of radiation. My tumor was small (3mm) and luckily no lymph node involvement, so no chemo. Because of the tumor size I also was unable to get Oncotype,…
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10+ years cancer free but....
Hi - I was diagnosed in 2010 with a Stage 1 IDC, no lymph node involvement, so had lumpectomy and brachytherapy and took Tamoxifen for 10 years. Long story but two weeks ago I went to see my gastro doctor thinking I might have diverticulitis (I'm 61 and it runs in my family). He did a contrast CT scan of my abdomen and…
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Skin mets thread-is there one?
cannot find a way of searching to see if this exists. If this thread exists, can someone please send me a link. thank you! D
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Anastrazole
I have extreme stiffness and pain in my hands. I have very little strength in them. Is this Anastrazole or arthritis? It is getting worse every day.
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If cancers comes back in opposite breast is it the same kind?
Hi Community, I just had an MRI with dye infusion and they found a mass in my left breast. I had triple positive breast cancer in my right breast, I'm less than a year from a full year of chemo, radiation and a lumpectomy. If this is breast cancer, will it be triple positive? Or is it possible to get a different pathology…
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Nasty red itchy rash- skin mets??
I’ve have a bad rash jumping around from back to one arm and another arm. Leaves one place and goes to another. Now I’ve had it to my upper chest and neck. I don’t think it’s a rash anymore. This is so itchy and red and dry. I’m finding it hard to find info on this. Has anyone had this experience and was it skin mets?? D
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AC+T treatment tips
Hi ladies, I'll be starting my AC+T chemo treatment this Friday or next Friday and I'm looking for tips and tricks to handle the side effects and the treatment in general. Any advice
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Pulmonary Fibrosis / lung scarring after Rads???
Question: I am curious about women who had pulmonary fibrosis (scarring of the lungs) as a result of receiving radiation treatments...Did you also have a lot of the blistering and break down of your skin surface from the treatments? I'm just thinking there could be some kind of connection to the two things, so if you know…
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Lung Nodule 14 Years Later - Baffled and Concerned
Hello All, It's been a while since I've been on these boards but I knew immediately where I needed to go for input. I was diagnosed 14 years ago with a 1 cm IDC, no nodes grade 3 tumor. I had surgery, chemo, radiation and tamoxifen. My baseline scans showed a few incidentals but one was a 1 cm (from what I recall) lung…
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HOMOGRAPH game
My daughter is studying this in third grade and I thought I would start a new game. A homograph is where you have two words spelled the same but, they have 2 different meanings and usually different pronunciations.
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Waiting game
So about 10 days ago out of nowhere, my right ribs became painful when I was sleeping. The pain goes and comes back. At first I considered it as muscle pain. When it didn't get better, I called the nurse at the cancer center, and she said to stop yoga and it most probably is muscle pain and I did. But the pain didn't go…
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Elderly Mom Moved In With Us
Last October my 89 year old mother and 94 year old stepfather moved into assisted living, which was great for my ultra-social mom. Just as she was starting to make friends, my step-dad passed away in November. My mom could not afford to stay in assisted living or really live on her own at all, so she ended moving in with…
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New Primary: Papillary Carcinoma With Microinvasion
So next month I would have celebrated ten years since my IDC dx and subsequent BMX with recon... But a few months ago I noticed two tiny nodules in the skin above my suture line. Had them biopsied. The path report came back positive for papillary carcinoma with microinvasion. MO is not advocating for radiation, but is…