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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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Heart issue(s) and breast cancer: What's your story?
Share with others here ❤️ For more information, please see our new page on Heart Tests for People With Breast Cancer.
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Does anyone else feel wiped out for hours after radiation?
Hi everyone, I’m currently halfway through radiation treatment, and I’ve been noticing that I crash completely about 2–3 hours after each session. It feels like my energy just disappears, and I need to lie down for the rest of the day. I expected some fatigue, but I didn’t realize it would hit this hard, this early. Has…
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radiation-induced atypical vascular lesions (AVLs)
I've had radiation treatment twice for breast cancer in 2009 and 2019. In 2021, I developed four atypical vascular lesions on my mastectomy scar. They are a rare complication of radiation treatment and had to be removed. The surgeon removed them because in some cases these can lead to angiosarcoma, which is a death…
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Blood Thinners and Invasive Breast Carcinoma ER/PR+ HER2-
Good morning, last week I was diagnosed with Invasive Breast Carcinoma ER/PR+ HER2-; most likely stage one, depending what they find in the surgery. I am 42 with two young children. I have a history of blood clots and pulmonary embolisms and have a stent in my iliac vien. I am on an anti-coagulant for life. I don't know…
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Tamoxifen and Diabetes
Hello , in a few weeks I will be ending my 10 year sentence of taking tamoxifen. I have type 2 diabetes, I was diagnosed 4 years ago. Has anyone notice after the tamoxifen is gone from their system , did the blood sugar and A1c go back down?
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Opinion?
Finding 4: Left breast asymmetries likely correlate with following probable benign lesions: -Left breast 3:00, 7 cm from the nipple 20 mm nodule -Left breast 3:00, 3 cm from the nipple 8 mm cluster of complicated cysts -Left breast 4:00, 3 cm from the nipple 12 mm complicated cyst/nodule -Left breast 8:00, 2 cm from the…
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Hanging on to Hope.
Hello everyone, I am here to tell my story, and I am here to get support, opinions, prayers, and maybe some answers. My name is Millie, I am 35 years old, and I have a wonderful and beautiful 8 year old daughter that needs me. In October 2028 the Dr's decided to perform a partial hysterectomy. We'll years passed and…
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How about kidney stones!
I was getting ready to go to work (two days ago) when I was struck by the most incredible pain on my left side/flank. Something was very wrong. For about 30 seconds I thought I could drive myself to the ER but realized that an ambulance was needed (texted family who called 911 for me). I simply cannot describe the pain and…
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Yet another cancer???
I was diagnosed with a supposedly benign bone tumor in my hand when I was 27. It was removed then and grafted, with good margins, but it came back 9 years later. Another surgeon removed it again, but it grew back for a 3rd time 3 years later. The surgeon insisted it had to be benign (because bone tumors in the hand are…
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True risk factors
I just read a study that said prediabetes increases breast cancer risk. “ Heritable mutations account for some breast cancer diagnoses; a well-known example of which are the BRCA1/2 genes. However, most breast cancers arise from environmental or lifestyle-associated exposures.“ I tried to post a link to the study here but…
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Moved: DCIS removed but... gene mutations... now what and family thinks I should be happy
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