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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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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…