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  • sandie1973
    sandie1973 Member Posts: 39
    edited January 2015

    Congratulations Lago on approaching your 5 years :) I am on the last leg of treatment and life is starting to feel normal again. I feel and look well. I am just so grateful for every day of feeling healthy and hope it stays that way. Five years seems ages away but I will be coming up to my first cancer anniversary in April. Thanks everyone for the positive, uplifting stories, they really do make a difference

    Smile

  • Flautalee
    Flautalee Member Posts: 46
    edited January 2015

    Chevyboy, thank you for your encouraging thoughts. Some general surgeons are OK, such as yours. My kind of BC is called Triple Negative (TNG). I believe that chemo + radiation, is part of the treatment, even if a person has a mastectomy for TNG BC. 1/32,000 patients who have a mastectomy have reoccurrence in the same breast = just about never, but I was that one person.

    Note: In 2000, radiation was not part of the treatment regimen for my stage and type of tumor. It may be now. Smile

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited January 2015

    Flautalee what a story. I think I'm one of the few people who knew that even with a BMX you can get breast cancer again but very rare. They can't get all the breast tissue but a good breast surgeon will get more than a general surgeon. I know my breast surgeon had a reputation of getting more tissue. I thought it was as high as 2%.

    I do have a friend that got a new breast cancer after a BMX. She got mets from it but she's still surviving. She was diagnosed the same time as me.

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858
    edited January 2015

    Lago

    I made the 5 yr.mark in Nov.of last yr.

    I still can't believe it...

  • pessa
    pessa Member Posts: 137
    edited January 2015

    I discovered my lump 5 yrs ago (end of Jan., 2010). Had bilateral mastectomy and chemo. No recurrance to date. However, a little over a year ago I was diagnosed with lung cancer, early stage. I had the right upper lobe of my lung removed. Did't need chemo. I had my one year CT scan on in December, which was negative for any sign of recurrance. I get a CT every 6 months. I have to moniter a lot of things, but so far so good.

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited January 2015

    Flautalee...what an incredible story. So glad you got to share in some many great life moments.

    Pessa...congrats on the 5 years and clean CT. Glad you are doing well.

  • Laughjoyfully
    Laughjoyfully Member Posts: 14
    edited February 2015

    I will be 7years out on July 9th. I am sad, I think I need some support. Apart from that and the things we live with. I am here and full of love and encouragement for you all. xx

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited February 2015

    I'm sending loads of support your way laughjoyfully! Great big hugs:) CONGRATULATIONS on being a seven-year survivor, you are an inspiration, thank you.

    x x

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited February 2015

    Laughjoyfully....congrats on the 7 years. I'm sorry you are sad, life can be hard and at times we all need support. Sending gentle ((((hugs))))

  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 11,653
    edited February 2015

    Laughjoyfully So happy for you. Sadness is a part of life though. If you continue to be sad all the time please please get some help. You don't have to feel this way all the time.

  • Keryl
    Keryl Member Posts: 54
    edited February 2015

    Celebrated my 6 year on Feb. 6th. I try to appreciate each and every day. Cheers!

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited February 2015

    Keryl...Congrats! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your success...really good to hear

  • Beverly11
    Beverly11 Member Posts: 17
    edited February 2015


    6 years as of December 23/14.  Everyday I count my blessings...

  • peacestrength
    peacestrength Member Posts: 236
    edited February 2015

    Keryl and Beverly, Thank you both for sharing!!!

  • shelleym1
    shelleym1 Member Posts: 111
    edited February 2015

    Beverly and Keryl, congrats to you both! That is wonderful!!

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited February 2015

    Beverly...congrats!!! Thanks for sharing.

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,636
    edited February 2015

    You are all an incredible inspiration!!! Congrats to each of you and here's to many, many more!

    (((Big Hugs)))

    The Mods

  • mjjones453
    mjjones453 Member Posts: 8
    edited March 2015

    As of February 4, 2010 I have been cancer free! Five years Woo Hoo!! I am so blessed!

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited March 2015

    mjjones453...congrats!!! great news...thanks for sharing.

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited March 2015

    Fantastic news mjjones! Congratulations! Thank you for sharing:)

    x x

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,688
    edited March 2015

    8 years ago I was getting ready to go into surgery and scared out of my mind. Here I am today; alive, well, and very, very grateful!!!!

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited March 2015

    Congratulation Joycek and Ruthbru! So glad you are here today. Have a fantastic weekend girls!

    :)

    x x

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited March 2015

    joycek and ruthbru.....Congrats and thanks so much for taking the time to share...does my heart good.

  • honeytagh
    honeytagh Member Posts: 447
    edited March 2015

    Thanks all dear survivors for posting.  Wish you the best

  • badger
    badger Member Posts: 24,938
    edited March 2015

    badger - checking in from five years out with love & encouragement for the newbies.  Timeline as follows.

    2009: Oct - mammo, Nov - stereotactic biopsy, Dec - surgical biopsy & diagnosis.  Joined BCO community. 

    2010: Feb - bilateral mastectomy with sentinel node biopsy, Mar-Jun - chemo Taxotere & Cytoxan, 6 rounds.

    2015: will finish up five year stint on tamoxifen and start anastrozole (generic Arimidex).  I would do five more years of tamox as side effects have not been too bad but I'm post-meno so not a candidate.  I'm NED which means there's no evidence of disease.

    I see my onc every six months and do bloodwork once a year.  I don't get any scans although I did have a baseline bone density test last month.  Will get another in two years.

    Over the past five years, I have cried and laughed, lost body parts and gained friends, gone from being scared 24/7 to accepting life in a world fraught with risk, from natural disasters and random acts of human violence to super-bugs and cancer.  Just do the best you can and know that life can still be sweet.  ((hugs))

  • Nash54
    Nash54 Member Posts: 699
    edited March 2015

    Thanks badger....life is sweet.

    ThumbsUp

  • Lilyn
    Lilyn Member Posts: 156
    edited March 2015

    Will be 7 years out in may so happySillyHeart

  • GG27
    GG27 Member Posts: 1,308
    edited March 2015

    I'm six 1/2 years out. Still feel good, even at stage IV, didn't think I would say that in May of last year.

  • songbird68
    songbird68 Member Posts: 127
    edited March 2015

    Badger and lilyn you are wonderful ladies:) Congratulations to you both, and thank you for posting.

    x x

  • moderators
    moderators Posts: 8,636
    edited March 2015

    We love hearing from all of you amazing women!! Congratulations to each of you and keep these inspirational posts coming!

    HugHUGS!

    --The Mods

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