CALLING ALL STAGE I SISTERS
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Happy New Year!
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May it be a Healthy and happy new year for all my new sistas!!!!
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Yipee for 2013! For those of us diagnosed last year...looking forward to a year with less doctor appointments! Can't wait for summer!
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If your active treatment finished up in 2012, then most of you WILL have a happier new year!
If you still have surgery, etc., in your future, then even if it's a little scary, 2013 is the year to get that cancer OUT, so it will be a happy new year.
What I am trying to say is Happy New Year Stage 1 Sisters. Happiness is entirely possible!
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Happy New Year sisters!!! 2013 has begun... let it be the best ever!!
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Thank You.....Happy New Year to you and all of us on this life saver of a website. Thanks for all the talk even if most of the time I'm just here listening. Hope all goes well for all of us in 2013. Peace, LorAll.0 -
Thank You Annette...for/from my son and his surgery.
Am I a wreck?
Bet on it...
Hate starting the new year off like this.
Hope everyone has health which comes with happiness this new year.
We came a long way baby!!!!!
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Here's to a healthy and happy 2013 sisters!
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May 2013 be better. Much love.
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Love and Happiness with Best Wishes to all my dear BCO sisters!
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granny...I'm lighting this candle for you and your son........
You will be in my thoughts tomorrow......
To a speedy recovery......
Love and hugs♥♥♥
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Hi and Happy New Year...was away from BCO for a few weeks...
Not yet caught up on back-posts, but want to join in the wishes for a healthy and happy 2013. I especially send hugs and prayers to those who are still under treatment or have surgeries ahead.
Granny, you know we are all with you for your DS's planning and procedure.
Looking forward to that good post-op report.
Stay warm, & stay well!
Hugs,Joan
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Happy New Year to you all. Here is to a happy and healthy 2013. I have been away like Joan and am catching up. Prayers for Granny and her DS. Hugs to you all -
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Hi all,
I have a question for everyone...How many months after your treatment did you get your first mammogram for the breast that had the tumor? also, is it 3-6 mos. after surgery or after the radiation? I had lumpectomy followed by radiation, and my MO told me that in my case my first mammo. is 6 mos. after the radiation, which will be in the last week of April, I finished my radiation Oct. 26th. Just wondering if someone's schedule is the same with mine.My last mammo. for the unaffected breast was May 21, 2012, it will just be a month apart, 'wondering if I should just wait so I could get both done at the same time?Thanks in advance.
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Clariz.....I just came back from my first mammo after tx. My surgery was a year ago and I was told a mammo every year now, plus I had an U/S as well.
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I forgot to give all of you the update on my son...we went monday.it started off that when we were almost there my GD forgot the twin carriage for her 1&2 yr.olds.ok you stay in the car and ill go in with the tape recorder...we go in and the check in person says he was cancelled.in the quietest voice i said IN ABOUT ONE MIN.IM GONNA LOOSE MY COOL.Get the dr.here now...soo long story short we got in...The dr.was please that i was ready to take the top off this damn place and he gave this ugly news.This surgery is huge.gonna bring in a dr.from the Netherlands along with 8 other drs.its a new surgery to America called ELANA.Date is jan 23rd.
Im numb.my breast swelled up,i have a headache,my back is killin me but im home and not answering the phone...i cannot listen to one more thing....done!!!!!
the end.
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Clariz - I had my mammo 6 months after my surgery and after that it will be annually.
Granny - I'm so sorry you have so much on your plate. You are in our thoughts and prayers.
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I would ask your clinic how early they would do both as part of your annual routine. I doubt you'll have to wait the year. I would do them both together. Having had cancer, a short service on the other side (less than a year) shouldn't be a big deal. Good luck.
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To clarify, they did a unilateral for me at the 6 month point. I had to make sure they billed it as a diagnostic mammo for the insurance to cover it. I'll have my bilateral in another 6 months and then each year after that.
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Grannydukes, so sorry to hear the news on your son. I will keep him and the family in my prayers. Glad you showed that wonderful fight you have in you to get him seen. Please take care of yourself.
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granny.....♥♥♥♥
I had a mammogram 6 months after completing radiation and once a year after that
So nice to see you all here again
Hugs from NY....♥♥♥
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clairz ~ My first mamm on the affected breast was 3 months after I finished Rads. Six months later I had my regular mamm on both sides (which happened to fall at my regular one year mark)- then back to the regular one year after that.
((((( ♥K♥ )))))
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Mine was from surgery. 6 months on the affected side. Then 6 months later I will have both. Then it moves to once a year with 6 month clinical breast exams by BS and MO.
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Granny hoping all is well with you. Sending you and your family prayers and hugs.
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This post is for any of you who has the following DX: 1cm, stage 1a, grade 2 , 90% ER+ 5% PR+ HER-,
0/3 Double Mastectomy, No Chemo , No Radiation! NO Oncotype Score! Arimidex therapy only.
The reason I am asking is because after seeing my Oncologist on Monday, I am not too happy with the odds she gave me for recurrence of cancer somewhere else in the body !
What I need to know is " All of you who match my DX, what odds were you given? My onc said I had a 37% chance without the Arimidex and with it 17.5%.
Thank you so
Much!
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Thank yo MIMI...my son is goin for the final test tomorrow...the the surgery is on jan23...
I'm no askin for a pocket party...the hospitals are full of sick people.
Bringing g mask and rubber gloves.
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granny...I posted on the othet thread...i think it was STFU
I'm thinking of you and your son and will light a candle in the header until he gets better
Hugs♥
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Granny, you're so thoughtful. OK, we won't climb in your pockets but I bet the rest will be there with me in spirit.
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Mena - My stats aren't the same as yours, but hope you don't mind me chiming in. I assume your MO used some sort of statistical model to get the numbers you were quoted. Perhaps she uses Adjuvent or another database. If you're uncomfortable with the odds you were quoted perhaps you could request the Oncotype DX. I read your post to say that they did not run the Oncotype DX (unless you meant that you had a score of 0?). My MO doesn't always order it, but she did at my request. Tumor tissues are kept for a number of years so it could still be done if it would help put your mind at ease or suggest that more aggressive treatment (chemo) is in order.
Or....another opinion from a different oncologist?
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I dug out my paperwork re chances. Without anastrasole 67% are okay, 14% recur, and 19% die of something else (I'm 72, so that may have affected the die of something else number). With anastrasole the 14% drops to 7%. I think your onc may have just subtracted the well people from the total, which would be 33%. My stats are close enough to yours that I think your risk without hormonal treatment would be in the 14% range. I read a paper saying that hormonals work to prevent recurrence, but did not increase longevity.
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