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  • Posted on: Aug 19, 2009 01:27 pm
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 380
Titan wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the right place to be but here goes...I just finished chemo 2 weeks ago..dose dense ac/taxol.  Anyway..I asked the onc to schedule a mammogram for my left breast because it had been a year.  I had it last Friday and now I have to go back for a magnification!  The radiogist report said that there are a group of 4 round dense microcalcifications in my upper breast.  They were seen "faintly" one year ago.

Should be I be freaking!  I know I already am!


Dx 3/18/2009, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/5 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-
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Mamita49
Montréal
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 194
Aug 19, 2009 06:50 pm Mamita49 wrote:

Titan,

I finished Chemo July 26, same than you A/C Taxol. I had a mammo the same week I finished Chemo. In my bad breast were still some microcalcifications.( After 8 rounds of chemo  WTF...)

I just had a mastectomy this Monday, after I had a lumpectomy in January.

I feel much safer, much better. Ok, no more right breast, but I know the monster is gone.

Check it out, if you can get surgery right away, dont delay a minute.

Dont freak out, but be very pro-active. Its your health.

Good luck.

Carol 

Carol, lumpect. 4xA/C 4xTAX, Mast. in Aug. 2009, Rad. Tamox
Dx 12/15/2008, IDC, 3cm, Stage IIb, Grade 3, 2/2 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-
Titan
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 380
Aug 19, 2009 07:58 pm Titan wrote:

Thanks Carol....I find out tomorrow if they are bad or not..if they are I'm leaning for a double masectomy...don't really want to go there...would prefer taking out the bad calcifations because I absolutely hate the thought of being in surgery and recovery that  long,,.but like you said..it is MY life and I need to be proactive


Dx 3/18/2009, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/5 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-
Titan
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 380
Aug 20, 2009 12:22 pm Titan wrote:

Ok..just came back from the radiologist.  I have 4 calcifications..3 are round and benign...one is rod shaped and suspicious.  So I meet with the surgeon next Monday to discuss biopsy.  The radiologist said Bi-rad of 4.  He also said that normally he would have me wait 6 months to come back but with my "history" he wanted me to take action now.


Dx 3/18/2009, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/5 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-
PS73
Bergen County, NJ
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 236
Nov 7, 2009 10:59 am, edited Nov 7, 2009 12:41 PM by PS73 PS73 wrote:

Titan, Im sorry to hear about the calcifications.  I have them too. Like Carol, I did four rounds of DD AC and I am not even done w/ taxol yet so wth. Had a lumpectomy in May, had my six month follow up and bam - calcs. I go for a biopsy on Monday - praying its nothing.  I am leaning toward a bmx.  Carol, question, did you do rads at all? 

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”
Diagnosis: 4/24/2009, 2cm, Stage IIa, Grade 3, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR-, HER2+
smithlme
Fort Bragg, CA
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 909
Nov 7, 2009 02:08 pm smithlme wrote:

I had IDC, followed by a mastectomy and DD A/C and DD Taxol. 7 1/2 months later I went for my annual mammogram and they found what looked like calcification. Because of my history the doctor did a biopsy. It was DCIS, which wasn't there when I was diagnosed the first time. I chose to have another mastectomy and genetic testing. I am BRCA 2+ so I've also had a preventative hysterectomy w/BSO to try and avoid ovarian cancer.

Hang in there. I'll keep my fingers and eyes crossed that your results are B9...

Linda

Dx 3/31/08, DCIS, ER+/PR- BRCA2+...Life is a series of every day miracles...
Diagnosis: 3/28/2007, IDC, 2cm, Stage II, Grade 3, 0/9 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-

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