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Share a photo to create a bright moment in someones day!
Hi All! #GivingTuesdayNow, a new initiative in response to COVID-19, is on May 5 and we're using it as an opportunity to talk about how Breastcancer.org community members give support to each other. The goal is to spread positivity through photos. What can you share or suggest to create a bright moment in someone's day?…
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Doctor says to wait several months after getting COVID before gettinng mammogram
My thyroid doctor told me that there is lots of evidence that getting a case of covid can frequently cause lymph nodes to swell and therefore recommended waiting several months before getting any sort of ultrasound or mammogram to avoid false alarms. I had covid a few weeks ago and have my mammogram scheduled for next…
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People Receiving Cancer Treatment Benefit From Extra COVID-19 Boosters
People Receiving Cancer Treatment Benefit From Extra COVID-19 Boosters Sep 6, 2023 If you’re in treatment for breast cancer, you’re likely to benefit from extra COVID-19 boosters. How often you get them depends on the medicines you’re receiving. Read more…
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PSA: Updated COVID-19 Vaccines coming soon!
For the immunocompromised, updated COVID-19 vaccine shots are supposed to be available by the third or fourth week of September. Read more: https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/995436 More information on COVID-19 Vaccine Facts for People With Breast Cancer.
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Evusheld
Hello, Is anyone on Evusheld particularly if you are being treated with Enhertu? Evusheld is a pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for covid-19. It's composed of two mono-clonal antibodies tixagevimab and cilgavimab. Thanks, Nguyen
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Vaccine booster
Hi everyone, I saw my MO yesterday for a normal, check-in visit and to get results of a recent scan (all stable! 😁). I asked him if I was offered a booster vaccine (received the Pfizer vaccine many months ago and had no ill effects) should I take it. He said yes, even though I’m not considered immunocompromised, he said it…
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Loosening COVID Restrictions: Immunocompromised Left Behind?
Loosening COVID-19 Restrictions and Immunocompromised People: Do You Feel Left Behind? If you're immunocompromised, are you worried that other people's eagerness to get back to pre-COVID-19 "normal" will make you sick? If you're being treated for breast cancer, you may be considered immunocompromised, meaning your immune…
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Vaxxed People Dx W/ Cancer Have Higher Risk of Breakthru COVID
Vaccinated People Diagnosed With Cancer Have Higher Risk of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection May 5, 2022 People diagnosed with cancer who've received a COVID-19 vaccine have a higher risk of a breakthrough COVID infection than vaccinated people without cancer. Read more...
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People Diagnosed With Cancer Benefit From Moderna Vaccine
People Diagnosed With Cancer Benefit From Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Mar 28, 2022 People diagnosed with cancer developed COVID-19 antibodies after receiving the Moderna vaccine, but at lower levels than people who hadn't been diagnosed with cancer. Read more...
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People Receiving Recent Cancer Tx Have Worse COVID-19 Outcomes
People Receiving Recent Cancer Treatment Have Worse COVID-19 Outcomes, Study Shows Jan 26, 2022 People who received cancer treatment within three months of being diagnosed with COVID-19 had a higher risk of being hospitalized, being admitted to intensive care, or dying from COVID-19 than people who haven't been diagnosed…
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How has the Pandemic affected you as a cancer patient/survivor
Has the Pandemic substantially impacted your life as a current or former cancer patient? Please post your stories; heartbreaking, frustrating, even uplifting. If you post anything about treatments, cures, vaccinations, hospitalizations or deaths, please back it up with research from accepted, credible sources. Your Uncle's…
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COVID-19: Increased risk for cancer survivors over age 55?
Hi there, I'm getting mixed messages on this topic. I had Apocrine Breast Cancer - Grade 3 Stage 1 in my left breast in October 2015. I underwent a lumpectomy along with lymph node removal (lymph nodes were precautionary & found negative). I completed radiation, chemo and herceptin. In October 2018, I was DCIS positive in…
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Tonsils Issues
Hi Everyone! I had my second covid vaccine dose last June 2021 which caused lymph nodes to light up during my petscans including my tonsils . Doctors don’t seem to be too concerned since there has been regression in intensity and size with regards to my lymph nodes and even if my tonsils are still highly reactive, they are…
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COVID-19 Treatment for High-Risk, Nonhospitalized Patients
Note the content in below links likely to change every few months, sometime more often. The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel's Statement on Therapies for High-Risk, Nonhospitalized Patients With Mild to Moderate COVID-19 https://www.covid19treatmentguidelin...very&utm_term= When To Go to the Hospital for COVID 19…
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Anylink between tumor markers and covid vaccine?
Assuming that your tumor markers (Ca27.29, Ca15-3) have always been correlated with imaging, after covid vaccine, does anyone experience rise in tumor markers WITHOUT correlation with increase in size of tumor from imaging? Thanks. Nguyen
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Covid & Cancer Recurrence?
I recently stumbled on an article that says there could be a link between Covid and breast cancer recurrence. Needless to say it scared the crap out of me! Anyone have any insight into this or heard something similar? We recently had Covid at our house (fortunately I was the least sick out of everyone) and now I'm a little…
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Rejoining society after chemo—when is it safe?
Dear all, I just finished chemo and am wondering when it is safe to rejoin society. Maybe others have the same question? I am fully vaccinated, and was before chemo started, but will still be wearing my mask, avoiding crowds, restaurants, etc. And so is my husband, to keep me safe (bless him!). Our state fully opened up,…
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Are you sending your kids to school next week?
Monday Jan 3rd is still the first day of school in the new year. Things are pretty bad around here, but it's been made very clear that in-person school will be running. I have such mixed feelings about what we should do. Virtual school did NOT work for my kid and was actually detrimental- 8:30- 2:30 mandatory screen ruined…
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Enlarged axillary lymph nodes after COVID vaccine
FYI - I got a non-contrast CT scan today due to a cough, and my lungs were clear, but they found that my axillary lymph nodes on the breast cancer side were "borderline enlarged" and it was "nonspecific" (whatever that means). It's the same side where I got the first COVID vaccine shot three weeks ago, and the oncology…
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Anyone else work in a school and afraid to go back?
Now that my breast cancer is pretty much a "non-concern" I thought life would be less stressful. It isn't, in fact I don't know what caused me more stress, cancer of Covid. I work in a middle school giving support to special education students within the regular education classes. This requires me to be "up close and…
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After 2nd Vaccine, Ppl W & W/o Cx Have Same Antibodies
Six Months After Second Pfizer Vaccine Dose, People With Solid Tumors Have Same COVID-19 Antibody Levels as People Without Cancer September 9, 2021 Six months after receiving their second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, people diagnosed with solid tumor cancers had about the same antibody levels as people who hadn't…
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Truth about vaccine PLEASE
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Chemo Doesnt Seem To Increase Risk of COVID-19 Infection/Death
Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Doesn't Seem To Increase Risk of COVID-19 Infection or Death July 7, 2021 Women treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer were no more likely to be infected with COVID-19 or die from COVID-19 than women treated with other medicines that don't weaken the immune system. Read more...
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Ppl W/ Active Cx Hospitalized for COVID-19 More Likely To Die
People With Active Cancer Hospitalized for COVID-19 More Likely To Die June 15, 2021 When hospitalized for COVID-19, people receiving cancer treatment had a higher risk of dying than people with a history of cancer or people who had never been diagnosed with cancer. Read more...
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Ppl Rcving Cancer Tx Develop Adequate Response to Pfizer Vax
People Receiving Cancer Treatment Develop 'Adequate' Immune Response to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine June 4, 2021 Nearly all the people in a clinical trial who were receiving systemic intravenous cancer treatment had an adequate immune response to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Read more...
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Women of Color, Rural Women Miss Screening During Pandemic
Women of Color, Rural Women More Likely to Miss Breast Cancer Screening During Pandemic June 2, 2021 Women of color and women living in rural areas were more likely to miss regular screening mammograms during the COVID-19 pandemic than white and urban women. Read more...
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Loneliness, Anxiety Felt by Many W/ Cancer During COVID-19
Loneliness, Anxiety Felt by Many People With Cancer During COVID-19 Pandemic May 21, 2021 More than half of people who have been diagnosed with cancer feel lonely, most likely as a result of social distancing and isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
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Covid Vaccine and Treatment
Hi all, If you are in treatment, and have received Covid vaccine, at what point during the cycle did you receive it? Does it matter? I am going to ask my MO the same question but I wanted to know first hand experiences.
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Free Webinar from Johns Hopkins Covid19 and Cancer-April 29
The Johns Hopkins #BreastCancer Program is presenting the 2021 Lunch and Learn Series: Survive and Thrive! On Thursday, April 29 @tmprowell will discuss #COVID-19 and #Cancer: What Have We Learned? Registration is free, just visit: http://bit.ly/JHBCEvents
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Visiting family with the vaccine
My dad (in his late 80's)is visiting after a year! To come here, he will be getting on a plane. He is fully vaccinated. My husband and I have had our first. Three teens of course have not been vaccinated. I am on tamoxifen but my last chemo was in Nov 2020. I am trying to decide if we still wear masks in the house with my…