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Your Voice Can Shape Clinical Trials | Participate for $100 gift card!
Researchers at Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber, and Harvard Medical School are exploring how AI chatbots can make clinical trial consent easier to understand. They’re inviting adult cancer patients across the U.S. to join a virtual focus group and share their ideas. Participants will receive a $100 gift card. Spots are…
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Interview request: Breast Cancer Screening With a Disability
Do you have a physical or cognitive disability? Have you had any type of breast cancer screening? Breastcancer.org is working on an article about breast cancer screening for people with disabilities. We’re interested in hearing from people with any type of disability about their screening experiences. It doesn’t matter if…
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Middle Aged Memories
Let's see, so far we've reminisced about dittos, drive in theaters, lick-a-stick candy, five-and-dime stores, Donny Osmond, Dark Shadows, what have I missed?
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Birads 5 with calcification
I’ve been hesitant to post because I didn’t want reality to set it but here I am. I’m a 33 year mother of 3, youngest is 6. Just like most of the ppl in the group, It all started with me noticing a lump. I took action almost immediately. I made an appointment to see my primary doctor which took me 2 weeks to get in. I…
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🌟 February 2026 Radiation Roll Call—You’re Not Walking This Alone 🌟
If radiation is part of your plan this February, you’ve found a place to land. This thread is for everyone on the radiation road—whether you’re still waiting on your start date, in the middle of daily sessions, or already looking back on the experience. This is a space for connection, honesty, encouragement, and the kind…
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💛 February 2026 Chemo Check-In—This Is Your Circle 💛
If chemo begins for you this February, you don’t have to walk into it alone. This space is here so you can land somewhere soft, honest, and understanding—surrounded by people who truly know what this chapter can feel like. Come as you are. Brave, anxious, exhausted, hopeful, unsure. All of it belongs here. We invite you to…
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💗 February 2026 Surgery Roll Call—Let’s Do This Together 💗
If surgery is on your calendar this February—lumpectomy or mastectomy—you’ve found your people. This thread is your meetup spot: a place to show up exactly as you are, whether you’re feeling steady, scared, curious, or all of the above. We’re here to swap questions, share nerves, trade tips, and offer the kind of support…
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how about drinking?
Where did our thread go? Is anyone out there from our drinking group? Did I miss something - like we became too offesive or ...well, drunk? I would love to hear from you gals! Janie
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So...whats for dinner?
I thought it might be fun to start a thread on what we are having, making or had for dinner. Sometimes it is the best tuna steak you ever had, sometimes it's a can of soup. But we all do it every night in some form or another. Maybe we can give each other ideas on what to make, or bitch about what we had, or the fact that…
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Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
I am an "older" woman with breast cancer (I was diagnosed at 65 and am now 66). I notice that most of the posts seem to be from people younger than I am (often by quite a bit...). I'd love to "talk" with others my age, exchange info about their diagnoses, effects on their lives, etc. I see that there is a forum for young…
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Exemestane snoring symptoms ?
ever since my mastectomy and reconstruction surgeries I’ve started snoring. At 1st we wondered if it was due to being intubated . Then I read something which I can get back to, that indicated Exemestane may cause sleep apnea? I don’t think I have sleep apnea as I do not wake up gasping for air. But I do snore (and now my…
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Over 60, Birads 3 and a Story you Can’t Believe
I’m looking for input and advice. No prior history for myself. Mom diagnosed at age 90 with + - - grade 3 aggressive cancer. Died of unrelated causes before diagnostic work up completed. For me - Screening mammo at the end of October…Birads 0, new bilateral focal asymmetries both upper outer quadrant. Diagnostic spot…
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My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
As I go through this forced path I have been thrown down, I have come to realize the love I have always had for my husband was strong. He is amazing and I love him with my very soul and entire heart. Never would I ever imagine the thought of dying and him being alone. Then the worst part hit me!! I can't seem to shake the…
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Any ladies from WISCONSIN??
i would love to connect to some nice ladies from my state since support groups are not available out here in the sticks and boondocks... 1/21/15 Apparently the thread I started has gotten a life of its own...im glad it has become so enjoyed by so many.
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thread for middle age to older Christian women.
I would like to start a forum to meet other middle age or older women who have bc and love the Lord. Try to live your life for him, walk the walk and talk the talk. Of course we all fall from grace because we are human but we are covered by the blood of Jesus. Also this forum is for people who has a large enough vocabulary…
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Post lumpectomy hematoma
I had a lumpectomy with sentinel node removal on 12/29. Clean margins and node and DNA analysis shows no need for chemo. 4 days after surgery my breast was swollen and developed a hematoma. I ham still wearing a compression bra 24/7. I have seen the surgeon 3 times for follow-up and waiting for the widespread bruising and…
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Cording/Mondors
Hi All. New here and hoping someone can see this and talk me off the ledge. I have been having pain in my ribs. At first I thought it was a broken rib again (had it 6 months ago post radiation for no reason). But the I saw the cord and now two cords from my breast to rib. I am freaked out because my surgery was over a year…
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Breast Cancer
I am 69, just diagnosed this month. I would love to talk to any survivor (s) around my age or older? I was there with my mom when she went through chemo, now I am much older than she was.😐️
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Knowledge is power. Tell me all things IDC related.
Hi all, I am new to this group and newly diagnosed. I am a 43yr old female that had IDC Grade 3, Estrogen Progesterone Positive, Her negative cancer. So far, we believe my cancer is contained to one tumor appx 2cm in size, no lymph node involvement shown on MRI. My mother recently passed from breast cancer. However she was…
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Lets Post our Daily Exercise
I'm doing the Firm Cardio Step mix and will walk the dog for a mile later today. Lorrie
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Penn SURMOUNT & ABBY clinical trials
Hi there, I'm curious if anyone here is enrolling or planning to enroll in either of these clinical trials. https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02732171 https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04523857 I sent them some questions just to be sure I know what I might be committing to. Looking to connect with others may be…
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Stage IV MBC Fitness
Hello! Welcome! We are done with Stage IV, moving on and planning to staying healthy for a long time. We're Stage V (Which is not dead. We're doing fine, ready to live with this beast.) This is the American Cancer Society/NCI consensus on exercise for cancer patients. * 150 minutes/week moderate-intense aerobic exercise or…