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Ca-153 has gone up suddenly after 10 years
hello all our lobular family! Been ages since I’ve posted but I had a scare yesterday my TM ca153 gone from 28 to 188. My GP ran the tests as I’m almost ten years since mastectomy. I’ve been quite unwell, very sore back and tummy so getting scans done in next few days. I’ve been having terrible vomiting too so something…
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Young Women Can Safely Pause Hormonal Tx To Attempt Pregnancy
Young Women Can Safely Pause Hormonal Therapy To Attempt Pregnancy Dec 15, 2022 Young women can safely stop hormonal therapy temporarily to try to become pregnant. Read more...
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Benefits of Verzenio After Surgery for Early-Stage BC Confirmed
Benefits of Verzenio After Surgery for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Confirmed Dec 15, 2022 The benefits of Verzenio after surgery for early-stage, hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer with a high risk of recurrence were confirmed with longer follow-up. Read more...
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Enhertu's Benes Conf. for HER2+ MBC; Could Help Early Stages
Enhertu's Benefits Confirmed for Metastatic, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer; Could Help Treat Early-Stage Disease Dec 14, 2022 Updated results from the DESTINY-Breast02 and DESTINY-Breast03 studies confirmed the benefits of Enhertu for previously treated metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer, and results from the TALENT…
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Port for Chemotherapy
Anyone with experience of Port being placed for Chemo? I was advised that I should get Port placed for my chemo in January.
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Enhertu's Benes Conf. for HER2+ MBC; Could Help Early Stages
Enhertu's Benefits Confirmed for Metastatic, HER2-Positive Breast Cancer; Could Help Treat Early-Stage Disease Dec 14, 2022 Updated results from the DESTINY-Breast02 and DESTINY-Breast03 studies confirmed the benefits of Enhertu for previously treated metastatic, HER2-positive breast cancer, and results from the TALENT…
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Diep versus implant
I am recently recovered from 4 rounds of chemotherapy after a double mastectomy, on endocrine therapy, and scheduled for a DIEP mid January. I find I am dreading it. I originally wanted to do it because I liked the idea of using my own tissue, not having to worry about replacement implants, etc. That's still why I like it…
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Has someone received EVENITY injection for osteoporosis?
Good Morning ! Has someone received EVENITY injection for osteoporosis treatment? My wife has taken Fosamax for 5 years and received Reclast infusion for 2 years (one dose per year). Now, her lumbar spine with T score -3.5, so a specialist suggested my wife to receive EVENITY injection for another year (one injection per…
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Exercise Reduces Risk of Chemo-Related Functional, Heart Probs
Exercise Reduces Risk of Functional, Heart Problems Related to Chemotherapy Dec 6, 2022 Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer receiving anthracycline chemotherapy who completed a 12-month exercise program had a lower risk of functional problems and better cardiovascular health. Read more...
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Exercise Reduces Risk of Chemo-Related Functional, Heart Probs
Exercise Reduces Risk of Functional, Heart Problems Related to Chemotherapy Dec 6, 2022 Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer receiving anthracycline chemotherapy who completed a 12-month exercise program had a lower risk of functional problems and better cardiovascular health. Read more...
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Most Ppl W/ Cancer Want Complementary Tx Info Before Treatment
Most People With Cancer Want Complementary Therapy Information Before Treatment Starts Dec 1, 2022 Most people diagnosed with cancer in the United States want information about complementary therapies before they start receiving conventional treatment. Read more...
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How have you adjusted to being Half Flat?
Dear Half Flat Sisters, My name is Sara I am 33 years old and I have been living the Half Flat life for about 6 months now. My BS told me i can have reconstruction if i want to, but I am not sure if I want to have something not real on my body. I would like to know what your experiences have been like only having one…
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Need your feedback on Chemotherapy
Hello, I was recently diagnosed with Stage 2 cancer in my right breast. I had a surgery (removed the lump, no lymph nodes involved) and waiting for Oncotype Test results. No genetic mutations. I think I will be told whether/when I need to have chemotherapy in my next appointment. I wanted feedback on can I continue working…
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MRI
Waiting on mri results pre-surgery 1/12/23 bi lateral mastectomy IDC with widespread microcalcifications. My brain is going a little crazy with worst case scenarios. Hoping no surprises....any strategies to get through holidays welcome. Trying to enjoy my people but whew this is so draining.
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Dry Brushing Lets talk about it here
A few of us are doing dry brushing to help with our LE. I myself have found that it helps my truncal LE pain alot. I am following this you tube video now when I dry brush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=panD5S72Tb0 I find it is quick & easy to do. MLD has not helped me. For me I like to follow my dry brushing with a self…
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Radiation After Lumpectomy Doesn't Improve Overall Survival.
Radiation After Lumpectomy Doesn't Improve Overall Survival Nov 22, 2022 Treating early-stage breast cancer with radiation along with chemotherapy and hormonal therapy after lumpectomy lowers recurrence risk in the same breast, but doesn't improve overall survival. Read more...
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Radiation After Lumpectomy Doesn't Improve Overall Survival
Radiation After Lumpectomy Doesn't Improve Overall Survival Nov 22, 2022 Treating early-stage breast cancer with radiation along with chemotherapy and hormonal therapy after lumpectomy lowers recurrence risk in the same breast, but doesn't improve overall survival. Read more...
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Exercise Reduces Risk of Dying From Breast Cancer
Exercise Reduces Risk of Dying From Breast Cancer Nov 22, 2022 Post-menopausal women with a history of early-stage disease who did even moderate exercise, such as fast walking or easy cycling, reduced their risk of dying from breast cancer. Read more...
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"Atypical cells"
Hey My mom has been diagnosed with TNBC this month. She has performed surgery today and is expected to undergo chemo in a month. She went through MRI and PET that showed no involvement other than the primary tumor site. Today the surgery occurred, and after finishing we were notified by the surgeon that they have not seen…
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Acupuncture Offers Long-Term Relief for Joint Pain Caused by AIs
Acupuncture Offers Long-Term Relief for Joint Pain Caused by Aromatase Inhibitors Nov 15, 2022 In a randomized study, acupuncture eased joint pain caused by aromatase inhibitors in women diagnosed with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer for 40 weeks. Read more...
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21 Years of Stage 4 MBC de novo!
Yay me! Today is the first day of my 21st year after being diagnosed with Stage 4 MBC de novo! Originally ER+, PR-, Her2+++ with liver mets. I had a recurrence in 2 chest nodes 11 years ago, which changed me to Her2- Somatic. I have had A/C, Taxotere, Gemzar, Herceptin, Aromasin, Faslodex, Kadcyla, Poziotinib, and now on…
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Share inspiring messages/photos to help others
We've collected so many of your tips to preparing for and getting through radiation treatment, and are working on putting it in a PDF to share with you. To add to this we were wondering if you had a short "words of wisdom/inspiration" that you could share here to include as well. Also, any photos of you during treatment?!
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Anyone starting chemo in September, October, November 2022
Hi all, Anyone starting chemo in September, October, November 2022? Hoping we can build a community as we navigate our chemo journey togethe. I am starting chemo on Thursday, October 20 and would love any advice, things to bring, suggestions for anything that helped after chemo , etc Look forward to getting to know…
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Paid survey for Her2+ early stage
Hello! I wanted to let anyone interested know that RC Horowitz is looking for earlier stage, being Stage I, II, or III, Her2+ participants for a paid survey. I have done surveys with this company since 2020, and I have a great relationship with them. I will place the information below. I do not work for them. This is for…
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Finding humour in a breast cancer diagnosis
Breast cancer is no laughing matter, but that does not keep our guests in this episode from using and sharing humor to cope with their diagnosis. https://www.ourmbclife.org/episodes/laughter-as-medicine
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Podcast: Experimental Capivasertib Promising for HR+, HER2- MBC
Experimental Capivasertib Seems Promising for Advanced-Stage, Hormone Receptor-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer Dec 15, 2022 Dr. Nicholas Turner explains research looking at capivasertib, a new targeted therapy medicine. Researchers are always looking for new treatments for advanced-stage breast cancer. Dr. Nicholas…
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Podcast: Overall Survival in Enhertu vs Kadcyla for HER2+ MBC
Enhertu Offers Better Overall Survival Than Kadcyla for Metastatic HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Dec 9, 2022 Dr. Sara Hurvitz discusses new overall survival results from the DESTINY-Breast03 study. 2021 results from the DESTINY-Breast03 study showed that Enhertu (chemical name: fam-trastuzumab-deruxtecan-nxki) more than…
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Starting Chemo This Month (Dec. 2022)
Hi All, A little bit of family history, just lost my sweet Mom to metastatic BC 5 yrs. ago. Hers was one of the hormone types (not sure which one) and she was on I think Tamoxifen for 5 yrs. and then they took her off of it. Seems once they took her off, the cancer returned with a vengeance and she only survived another…
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Podcast: GRASP: Helping Advocates Understand Research
GRASP: Helping Advocates Understand Research, Helping Researchers Understand Patients Dec 14, 2022 Patient advocates and researchers who are part of GRASP talk about what they've learned from the program. GRASP – Guiding Researchers and Advocates to Scientific Partnership – connects patients, doctors, and researchers to…
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Podcast: 2022 SABCS Key Take-Aways
2022 SABCS Key Take-Aways Dec 13, 2022 Dr. Stephanie Graff explains the most interesting research presented at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium featured five days of research presentations, educational sessions, and posters. The amount of research presented can be…