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Thoracic CT results
I have been losing weight over the past year or so unintentionally. I was dx with Type 2 diabetes in 2020. I mildly changed my diet and I’m on Metformin. I have been heavy my entire adult life and have been on multiple diets where I would lose up to 20 pounds then gain it back. I have lost 35 pounds, 15 pounds since…
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It was scar tissue, but now what?
I posted in an earlier thread about a scare that turned out to be scar tissue. This was great news, relatively speaking, but after consulting with the PA at my breast surgeon’s office I have a new set of unknowns. I’d really just intended to ask about how to manage/treat scar tissue and maybe prevent more from happening,…
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Possible bone Mets collarbone
Hi all - I was originally diagnosed in 2010 with stage 1 IDC. Had lumpectomy, radiation, and tamoxifen. All was well then a few weeks ago this pimple-like growth appeared on my collarbone. I wasn’t really worried until this weekend when I noticed an area the size of a half dollar was swollen and the collarbone itself seems…
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CTdna positive results anyone?
Hi all, I'm just over 5 years out from a diagnosis of ER/PR+ Her2- stage III breast cancer . I did alllllll the treatment options back in the day and have been on hormone therapy (OS+letrozole) ever since. Recently I decided to do the fairly new circulating tumor DNA test to potentially take part in a clinical trial and it…
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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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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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MRI can’t rule out pelvic metastasis
I started Tamoxifen in late January and was given a list of symptoms to call the gynecologist about if they showed up because I'm premenopausal. Well, three weeks ago, I had about four days of abnormal spotting and I called. Ultrasound of the pelvis ordered and completed within a week. Results were a possible hemorrhagic…
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CA 27-29 again: markers up, sigh
Hi amigas, Again with the markers. Jan was low 60s, then retested and dropped to 50, now 68 for my last check up. Of course I'm scared, but feel resigned--weirdly, isn't this what we all get warned about? ILC seems to recur later rather than earlier? I suppose I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Rest of current labs…
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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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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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Subtle enhancement on good side -- any similar stories?
Hello. I tried posting this before but it did not work, so I apologize if this is a repeat. My wife just finished up chemotherapy and radiation about six months ago for recurrent localized breast cancer. She recently had her six month mammogram for the good side. Initial radiology report said that everything looked clear.…
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Lots of symptoms and worried
please tell me if I'm over reacting, or under reacting. I tend to under react and don't go the the dr until things are at a breaking point, and really bad. Short back story...family history of BC, dense breast, 3 benign masses in rt. Breast 3 yrs ago. Was suppose to follow up at 6 months to watch things, and never did…
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Lump on chest
I was doing my monthly check around my collarbone and such like I do every month. I never stopped this even after my treatment. However, this time I was in the shower checking and I noticed a small knot/lump in the upper inside of my right chest. I also have an enlarged lymph node that has been watched for two years near…
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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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Bloodwork inflammatory response - precursor to recurrence?
I've been having random progressive muscle, joint, nerve pains, stiffness and inability to move. Started with upper arm pains and couldn't even lift covers off with biceps not cooperating. Foot neuropathy came back. Hands went from healthy to like carpel tunnel, can't hold hair brush or make a fist and fingers feel like…
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Rib Pain
Hi, approx a year ago, I started with a pain in my ribs on my left side (cancer was on my right). I waited it out to see if it would go away and it didn’t. In the fall, I got an X-ray and ct scan (w & w/o contrast) of the area. Ribs looked fine, but there was a cyst on spleen that the report suggests may be source of pain.…