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How about women over 70
when do you call it quits? When does quality trump quantity
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I’ve been down this road before…trying not to panic
A brief backstory, I found this forum a long time ago in the mid 2000s back when my mom was diagnosed. I lurked all the time and am pretty sure I had an account but it’s been over a decade and I don’t remember any credentials so new account it is. 😊 I must say I am grateful this great forum still exists after all this…
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Wish you still had cancer?
Is it common to have the thought that i wouldn't care too much if i had a recurrence? That i want to stop my meds? Does anyone ever think this? Is it weird to bring up? I've been looking at my life since diagnosis, treatment, remission, and daily preventive maintenance. Maybe treatment and losing my hair was much easier…
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Will 30% of Early Stage (1-IIIA) go on to metastasize??
So I started this question in another thread but was hoping for additional feedback. With MBC awareness day last weekend, a stat is going around that caught my attention. Basically says that 30% of early stage BC patients will eventually have their bc metastasize AFTER adjuvant treatment. Susan G. Komen even states it here…
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decisions to be made--DCIS suspicious for microinvasion
Hi everyone, This is my first time posting. I have a DCIS (grade 3 ER+ PR+) diagnosis and am kind of stuck between having a mastectomy or trying cryoablation first. In order to make that decision, I am trying to figure out how to make sense of my likelihood of being upstaged at surgery. One sticking point is microinvasion.…
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Bilateral mastectomy and they missed the biopsy clip
Hello, I had a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction implants for triple negative breast cancer on Ictober 21,2024. Pathology revealed no cancer in the limp nodes 😀but they did not find the biopsy clip( or the small tumor most likely). Have to go back for another surgery like a lumpectomy and possibly exchange of that…
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7 yrs after lumpectomy
I finished br treatment in 2017 and my oncologist moved away so I haven't been to a cancer Dr since. I have had regular mammos, that have all been normal. Now, 7 years later, my left breast is considerably bigger 42 DDD than the rt, and I have been having terrible lower back pain on left side. I'm thinking that I should…
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Gross hematuria (Keytruda?)
hi everyone, I just finished my breast cancer treatment. 16 rounds of chemo (4AC and 12 tax/carbo), lumpectomy (7/29) and radiation 3 weeks. I am on Keytruda and zometa until May of 2025. 9/6 I saw I was peeing red blood and went to the ER. They said it was a UTI and gave me antibiotics. My culture only showed “rare”…
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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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Nobody told me...
In the last week of September in 1999, I was first diagnosed with breast cancer. After 8 months of chemo & 8 years of Tamoxifen, I thought I was done with that battle. Last fall, I began to have severe joint pain. 6 months of going from one specialist to another found no diagnosis Then in a routine scan for an unrelated…
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Metformin-Anyone on this trial?
My onc suggested I go on this trial after I finish chemo. Is anyone else on this trial?
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Chaga Mushroom (Inonotus Obliquus)
Wondering if anyone here uses this. I've been researching it and am pretty excited to try it! It's supposed to be the #1 cancer fighting herb in the world and has many other powerful health benefits as well. Pubmed has several impressive studies on it. I found that David Wolfe has a great explaination about it on Youtube.…
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Biopsy Scheduled After Architectural Distortion
I had my first mammogram ever in September with no history of breast cancer in my family. They called me back in for a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound. The doctor then came in and told me that even though she was scheduling a biopsy I would be having surgery no matter what. She said that the biopsies aren’t always…
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Egg freezing, is it worth it?
Hi, I was recently diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at 22 years old. I am overwhelmed with so many information and now I need to decide whether I should do egg freezing. I know it’s not 100% successful but should I still do it to keep my options open? I’m too young to even know if I want kids in the future or…
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Chest CT
A small nodule was found in my lung from an mri for my abdomen. We've checked it about evey 6 months for almost 2 yrs now. I was stage 1.What do you think of these most recent CT results? Stable peripheral right upper lobe fibrosis and subpleural nodule, 6 mm. No suspicious new or enlarging nodule. No consolidation. No…
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Long Shot - DIEP experience with Drs. Cacioppo and Cohen in Indianapolis?
I am currently undergoing delayed reconstruction with tissue expanders. My first plastic surgeon left the practice and I was transferred to Dr. Jason Cacioppo in the same practice after my first two or three fills. My current PS seems to think that my 400 cc expanders are likely too small for my frame (and I tend to agree,…
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Tumor marker results and changes truqap
I have stage iv metastatic breast cancer in my bones. Multiple sites. I was on ibrance. Now on Truqap. . My tumor markers jumped 25 points recently . My oncologist does not seem very concerned. What kind of jump have you had that the oncologist was concerned about?
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DIM and hot flashes
Anyone take DIM? Its helping except im experiencing hot flashes while on it. Anyone have experience? I have the headaches and body aches but didnt expect hot flashes. How do i know if it lowers estrogen too much or if it’s just an estrogen flush out effect? Thanks!
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Can this kind of Breast Cancer be cured?
aged:43, .Luminal B Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, LUMP 1.5CM1.5CM1CM， metastatic lymph node：No clear indication found T2N0M0. ER(90%+),PR(90%+),Her-s,(0),Ki67(20%+), Sentinel lymph node,SLN：0/10. Now,she is given TC*4 treatment
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AI’s after 10 years?
It has been many years since I checked in but it’s so wonderful to see how much this thread has grown! I remember clinging to the hope here when I was first diagnosed, and now am myself more than 13 years out from my stage 3 diagnosis! My question for this wise group is how many of you have remained on an AI for more than…
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Swelling
Hi, this is for anyone who has had abnormal swelling - and I’m not saying I think it’s cancer but I know a lot of you have had other breast abnormalities, too. The area above my breast from my nipple to shoulder/clavicle has been swelling for the past year and I’ve had some clear discharge. I finally made an appointment…
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Breast Tissue Changes after Weight Loss
Hi all I had IDC nine years ago and last year I lost 55 pounds. I went for my annual mammogram/ ultrasound and then had to have a biopsy for a distorted area ( no lump or mass visible on the ultrasound or mammogram, nothing palpable. It came back negative and now they want an MRI done to be sure. Obviously I am a wreck. I…
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I FEEL LIKE THERE IS NO WAY I'M THE ONLY ONE GOING THRU THIS
I WAS DX IN 2019 WITH DCIS TX WITH LUMPECTOMY, RADIATION AND A POOR ATTEMPT AT FAT GRAFTING ALMOST A YEAR LATER. THEN MY REOCCURANCE IN 2024 LET ME KNOW THAT 2019 WAS JUST A PRACTICE ROUND. I AM CURRENTLY THREE WEEKS OUT RECOVERING FROM A DBL MASTECTOMY WITH DIEP FLAP RECONSTRUCTION.HERE I THOUGHT I MADE A POSITIVE OUT OF…
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Thyroid Cancer
I wasn’t sure where to post I could just use support. I finished treatment in October 2015. IDC, lumpectomy, chemo, rads. Actually the last couple years I’ve really felt my body heal from everything I went through. I was in a good space mentally and physically. The last few months though I’ve been having trouble…
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Declining hormone blockers for DCIS grade 3?
has anyone refused taking hormones after surgery and radiation with dcis nuclear grade 3
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Shattered- Failed Re excision
My re excision report shows 18 mm of DCIS on inferior margins.The surgeon said he cant do third re excision as doing it means taking whole breast tissue and it will be as good as mastectomy .He said that his experience says that there is a lot DCIS around .Already he has taken a 9 cm wide margins Mastectomy was not what I…
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Lost my job...am I being selfish?
I started a new job and then was diagnosed with stage1 breast cancer. I had a lumpectomy and oncoplastic reduction, and weeks of radiation still to do. My employer let me go a week after the reduction because I wasn't sure when I could return to full capacity. It's a small company. I guess I'm looking for insight and…
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MBC to the bones
Hello 🙂 My mother today was diagnosed with MBC to her spine and hips. I read on the web that life expectancy is 19 to 25 months. Is that true? Sounds so little. I read some of your stories and I see that many of you have already live much longer. My mother soon will be 76. I love her so much, and she is so though and…
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Scared, has this happened to anyone?
So here's my story. Back in July of 2024 I thought felt a lump in my breast. For about 2 years every month when I started my period I would feel a large lump but it would go away after my perky. When I went to the gynecologist he felt around but didn't feel anything, but he wanted to be sure so he sent me for a mammogram.…
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Newly diagnosed stage IV
I am newly diagnosed. I am also a year into a systemic sclerosis/scleroderma diagnosis. Looking to connect. I am angry and in denial after the past five years of fighting diseases to now be diagnosed with this.