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We need your inspirational words! Partnership with Uncommon Goods
What inspires you, gives you hope, and keeps you going during tough times? We have a special project in the works with our partners at Uncommon Goods. A subtle QR code, like the one shown here, will unlock daily reflections, words of wisdom, and self-care themes on a mug specially designed for people facing breast cancer.…
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Introducing the NEW Breastcancer.org Blog!
Community Compass: A New Blog Series Twenty-five years of listening. A global community built on honesty, courage, and care. Now, the wisdom gathered from thousands of lived experiences — offered back to you. For the past 25 years, I've spent my days listening to people living with breast cancer. I've listened as they…
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Your Voice Can Shape Clinical Trials | Participate for $100 gift card!
Researchers at Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber, and Harvard Medical School are exploring how AI chatbots can make clinical trial consent easier to understand. They’re inviting adult cancer patients across the U.S. to join a virtual focus group and share their ideas. Participants will receive a $100 gift card. Spots are…
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how about drinking?
Where did our thread go? Is anyone out there from our drinking group? Did I miss something - like we became too offesive or ...well, drunk? I would love to hear from you gals! Janie
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So...whats for dinner?
I thought it might be fun to start a thread on what we are having, making or had for dinner. Sometimes it is the best tuna steak you ever had, sometimes it's a can of soup. But we all do it every night in some form or another. Maybe we can give each other ideas on what to make, or bitch about what we had, or the fact that…
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Lets Post our Daily Exercise
I'm doing the Firm Cardio Step mix and will walk the dog for a mile later today. Lorrie
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Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
I am an "older" woman with breast cancer (I was diagnosed at 65 and am now 66). I notice that most of the posts seem to be from people younger than I am (often by quite a bit...). I'd love to "talk" with others my age, exchange info about their diagnoses, effects on their lives, etc. I see that there is a forum for young…
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Brain MRI every 6-12 months?
Have any of you been told to get a Brain MRI every 6-12 months "just in case" by your MO? Before starting treatment 2 years ago, I asked my local MO if I should have a Brain MRI and she stated, "Only if you are having symptoms." At that time I also had an MO at a distant teaching hospital. She insisted I have a Brain MRI…
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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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My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
As I go through this forced path I have been thrown down, I have come to realize the love I have always had for my husband was strong. He is amazing and I love him with my very soul and entire heart. Never would I ever imagine the thought of dying and him being alone. Then the worst part hit me!! I can't seem to shake the…
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Wednesday Weigh In
Some of us on the Let's Post our Daily Exercise thread decided that it might help keep us honest if we had to post our weekly losses or gains. Not posting your weight - just your net loss or gain. So here goes!
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Asking for Tips - Starting Chemo Next Week
My port goes in Friday and I start 4 cycles of TC chemo that are three weeks apart on June 30. I decided to not mess around won’t cold capping but embrace the opportunity to get purple hair that I’ve wanted for 40 years. With that, what are people doing while they just sit there and wait for hours for the infusion? What…
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Partners support, aloofness and anger
I don’t know how to cope with being two weeks post op mastectomy with diep flap reconstruction and my partners anger and avoidance. My husband is arguing with me every day now we’re at home from the hospital. Thankfully his mom is here helping and he doesn’t act out in front of multiple people. I have teens 50% of the time…
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Hx DCIS L BREAT 5 years ago
jade mastectomy with direct reconstructive sx . Implants bilaterally. Fat graphing 1 year later on right breast for symmetry. Now 6 years later found 1.4 cm polymorphic lesion on mammo. Scheduled for stereotactic bx. Have severe health anxiety. Looking for positive stories that may point to this being benign or caused from…
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Brain Mets Sisters
Starting this for a friend. Edited to explain that the friend was imbell who was feeling overwhelmed by wbr. She helped us all by starting this. Shes in peace now. See you in the clouds, imbell.
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recently diagnosed-looking for info on nerve-preserving (or sensation-preserving) mastectomy
Hello All- I was diagnosed a few weeks ago- Stage 1, triple negative breast cancer . I will be having my nipple sparing mastectomy in a week and was leaning towards bilateral until the PS casually mentioned the loss of sensation. I'm like "what!?!? you need to START with that in our convo, not end with it!" he said they is…
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thread for middle age to older Christian women.
I would like to start a forum to meet other middle age or older women who have bc and love the Lord. Try to live your life for him, walk the walk and talk the talk. Of course we all fall from grace because we are human but we are covered by the blood of Jesus. Also this forum is for people who has a large enough vocabulary…
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The Next Person Game
In this game you make a statement about the next person. The next person answers true or false to that statement. They then make a statement for the next person, and so on. Example: If the person before me stated - The next person owns a dog. I would answer - True - and add my statement - The next person has curly hair.…
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Stage IV NED crew : lets support each other
Well, I'm now a stage four NED girl, and would like to connect with other stage four people who are also in remission. Could this be a thread for supporting us all through the complex world of stage four remission, check ups and routine scans, anxiety, side effects, ongoing treatment, expectations from family and…
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Faslodex Girls Thread
Tips for taking Faslodex without pain: ABSOLUTE MUSTS: * Warm up the syringes. At least room temperature. Armpits work well, as does belly skin. * Take the weight off the leg on the side of the shot. Relax that cheek/leg as much as possible. * Inject SLOWLY! It should take at least 30 seconds to empty each syringe. General…