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💗 February 2026 Surgery Roll Call—Let’s Do This Together 💗
If surgery is on your calendar this February—lumpectomy or mastectomy—you’ve found your people. This thread is your meetup spot: a place to show up exactly as you are, whether you’re feeling steady, scared, curious, or all of the above. We’re here to swap questions, share nerves, trade tips, and offer the kind of support…
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Chemotherapy hasn't started yet after the surgery..Her2+++
Hello everyone My sister's diagnosis and brief summary of her recovery are available in my signature. It's been 39 days since her surgery on January 30, 2026, and she's still recovering. Her plastic surgeon said, "We discussed it in the tumor board and decided to perform the first surgery and remove all remaining tissue.…
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2 Word Phrase Game
This game has the poster making a new 2 word phrase starting with the second word of the last post. Only Two Words! Now let's begin the game~ Age Old
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Anyone on low dose Enhertu?
After 12 infusions on Enhertu and Perjeta for Stage IV, HER2 positive breast cancer, my Signatera test came back negative and my scans are clear so I'm now considered NEAD. I still have to continue treatment to prevent a recurrence but want to decrease the dose of Enhertu from 4.4 mg to 3.2 mg. Wondering if anyone on this…
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Starting Chemo September 2015; join us!
Hello all: There is a great and very helpful group in the August 2015 chemo thread, and I hope they will pop in to give advice to all of us 'younger' chemo sisters, but I figured it was time to start the September group for those just starting down this road. My biggest worry is the impact of losing my hair, and am…
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Anyone starting brand drug, Enhertu?
I have had growth of tumors while on current treatment. My onc and I have decided to try new treatment, Enhertu (FDA approved 12/20/19)! Wondering if anyone else out there is trying or was in trial? Julie
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More surgery
my margins weren’t clear so I have to have another lumpectomy. Anyone else experienced this. I have dcis with a small 4 mm invasive cancer. The invasive cancer had clear margins the dcis had one focal margin
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Long-term survival of DCIS patients without radiation or hormone therapy
I'm interested in hearing from people who did not have radiation or hormone therapy after a lumpectomy for DCIS
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Seroma non infection
Hello everyone. It has been a while since I was on here. But I have questions and need your help and I know this entire community is amazing. I was here everyday during chemo and all my treatments. I had to have an implant removed last year due to infection. Fast forward to now and I had another tissue expander exchange on…
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Invasive lobular carcinoma
I am new to the forum, felt I needed some support to go through this whole process of my diagnosis. I am 73 years old, biopsy report invasive carcinoma, 7mm, her2 negative, ESTROGEN/PROGESTERONE POSITIVE GREATER THAN 90%.. appointment with surgeon 1/6 hopefully have surgery date set up. Due to the nature of this disease I…
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To take or not to take Tamoxifen
I had to suddenly stop taking HRT after 25 years. Then had a double mastectomy late in Sept 2025 followed by radiotherapy. Since stopping HRT and surgery I have very bad joint pain everywhere. I am 76 years old. I am concerned Tamoxifen will make the joint pain worse. My oncologist prescribed 20mg but I have not started…
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Overwhelmed
This is new for me. I can't sleep so I thought I would try to connect. I had a mamo, then a mamo with ultra sound, then a mamo with biopsy, and then an mri. I was supposed to schedule surgery but just found out I have to have a MRI with biopsy [my surgeon was sensitive enough to post it in my chart and schedule though we…
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Waiting for more testing and sad and scared
I have been reading these boards and getting a lot of great information. I am 57 years old and I joined a while back when my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer, invasive lobular stage 4 which eventually spread to her bones and brain. I was lucky enough to spend so much time with her and be by her side when she…
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Going flat or breast reconstruction
Scheduled to have bilateral mastectomy next month. I am very much undecided if I want to have reconstructive surgery or not and go flat. If I go flat, I am afraid I might get depressed as my body will be very different. With plastic surgery, I’ve read of women having so much pain and needing to do more procedures…
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Lumpectomy vs. Mastectomy
I’m newly diagnosed and had consults with 2 different doctors. My tumor is small (6.5/7mm depending on which report used). Both recommended the same treatment- lumpectomy with radiation and then likely chemo. They mentioned that I could choose mastectomy instead and then there wouldn’t be radiation, but that there was…
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Has anyone decided to have a mastectomy after a lumpectomy and radiation?
I finished my radiation treatments a little over a month ago. Due to the size of my tumor I decided against radiation since it seemed as if the costs would out way the benefits. My surgeon, Onc, and Rad Onc, all said that they didn't think my chances of reoccurrences would be significantly better with a mastectomy instead…
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Lumpectomy regrets anyone??
hello..... has anyone had a lumpectomy...and wish they had a mastectomy instead? i have surgery soon....and nervous about that decision. thanks
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Newly diagnosed; bilateral IDC grade 1
Hello, I am horrified to be here. :-( I am 58 and just diagnosed while on vacation visiting friends in Europe (I lived here in the past) and always had normal mammograms and still did them here because it was easy. It was found on a routine mammogram and what I know so far from core biopsies (MRI next); Left 9x8mm - IDC…
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things to buy in dept store
Lets shop in department store like Wally World. I will start and next person start with last letter of my word.. Curlers
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4 Letter Word Game
Hi Ladies, It is time to add a four letter word game. I received an email of a forwarded scrabble game. The game started with a four letter word and kept changing by one letter. I like playing here much better. Get your 4 letter words ready. First word: Word
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Fun Game -- 5 Letters Become a Sentence
Leave five letters and the next person will make a sentence out of it. Like ILRWS becomes I love running with scissors. Or Ill Llamas rarely welcome snacks. Next up is WCLFE
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This word reminds me of....
It is basically a word association game. I will post the first word, the next person posts what that word reminds them of and so on. First word 'Snow'
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Word Ladder - Part Two
Since the original word ladder has some technical difficulties, Sharon50 has asked that I start it up again. (Could it be a ploy to get around a six-letter word from scarabs? ) Here's a new old game, ladies I will try to guide you if it gets off track 1. Start with a 3 letter word. 2. The next person adds a letter to make…
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foods to get in grocery store
Foods to buy in grocery store . I will start with one word and you continue with last letter in word I give... pomogranete
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You name the group/artitst
Hi All, This game is a bit of trivia, may take a little thinking on our part but hey, we are good. Here is how it goes. Songs category 50's-80's. You name the song then you the next person names the band, then you list a song the next person names the band etc . One entry per turn as usual . Thanks for playing have a great…
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Song Game
I play this quite often on a soap opera discussion board I am a member of. It is a cool game imo. I will start with the name of a song. The next poster has to use at least 1 word out of my song name to post theirs and so on and so on. I can see clearly now
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Scanxiety and accuracy of scans
Hi all, I am right now having tremendous scanxiety about two scans I had on Tuesday. One was a nuclear bone scan, the other was a CT scan. They were supposed to reveal progress (or progression) after 3 months of Fulvestrant and 300 mg of daily Verzenio. I never had a bone scan before. The stupid technician came in after it…
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This sucks - Osteonecrosis of the jaw
After 10 months of bisphosonates I have been been diagnosed with ONJ. 3 weeks of mega antibiotics, everything else except letrozole stopped until this is resolved. A bottle of liquid morphine to add to my collection. (Resisting because it feels too ‘cancery’, if you get my drift.) And more ‘activity’ detected in my bones…
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Anastrozole
Diagnosed in July 2025 with Invasive DCIS Stage 1 Grade 0 - 8 mm. Lumpectomy and 3 weeks radiation. No cancer. Oncologist wants me to take Anastrozole for 5 Years. Side effects are keeping me from not taking the drug. Can anyone share experience with this drug?
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Anyone on Gemzar Alone of MBC?
I have seen many people getting Gemzar with Carboplatnin but not Gemzar alone. My Onc thinks there is not difference in OS (overall survival) just more toxicities. I saw that on one study they had the same OS but I get different information from reading other articles. How long were you on Gemzar and how successful was it?…