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Hi Wondering if anyone has experienced tinnitus while on tamoxifen any dose. This is my sixth...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1054861/

Discussion: Anyone taking 5 mg Tamoxifen: Do you have side effects with 5 mg?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Apr 21 3:35pm

I was diagnosed in 2003 at the age of 56 with DCIS in my right breast....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/832477/

Discussion: Opting out of radiation or chemo

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 26, 2023

@frogjumper—I, too, am going back and forth about radiation. My diagnosis was low grade, stage 0...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/864863/

Discussion: Deciding on radiation or not

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 22, 2023

Oh, we threw everything at it. My oncologist stresses that I'm at high risk of recurrence...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1005629/

Discussion: ER positive breast ca preventative hysterectomy

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 29 7:36am

Hi. I'm going in for surgery too. I had DCIS and it was invasive. Large tumor,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1081959/

Discussion: Breast Surgery; any advice to prepare for surgery?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 6 1:16pm

My aunt had DCIS. She went through surgery, radiation, and took Tamoxifen for 7 years. No...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1083947/

Discussion: Just diagnosed with DCIS: How do I know what questions to ask?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 9 9:48pm

I'm in the same circumstance! I'm 70 and the DCIS was so small that it was...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1058262/

Discussion: DCIS do I really need an AI?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Apr 27 10:28am

I was diagnosed in May with bilateral DCIS, HR+, grade 3 in the left, grade 2...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1120497/

Discussion: Lumpectomy or mastectomy that is the dilema. Any insight would help.

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Aug 9 8:26am

No, he got those criteria correct. The onco radiologist said I had a 10% chance of...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/687832/

Discussion: Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 9, 2022

ER+ HER2- DCIS is the most common breast cancer from what I was told and read....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/721530/

Discussion: Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 27, 2022

@callalloo, did you have DCIS? Remind me. @tygerrag2 it is impossible to comment without knowing your...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/720210/

Discussion: Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 23, 2022

I have also chosen not to take the meds, because the increase in probably protection is...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/823262/

Discussion: Aromatase Inhibitors: Did you decide to go on them or not?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 9, 2023

I started Exemestane back in Nov. '22. The first few weeks I really felt awful. Fatigue,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/810678/

Discussion: Side effects of exemestane (Aromasin)

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 13, 2023

Here are questions that Mayo Clinic lists on their article about DCIS https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dcis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20371895 Below are some...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/793895/

Discussion: Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 8, 2023

Welcome @finallyretired. Being freshly diagnosed with DCIS is likely not the retirement gift you were hoping...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/744397/

Discussion: Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 1, 2022

@jennie23b 3b you can have the Oncotype Dx done anytime after your surgery, even a year...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/755469/

Discussion: Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 30, 2022

@elliej: Atypical ductal hyperplasia (see below) is not cancer yet so that may be why radiation...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/764085/

Discussion: Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC): Anyone else?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Oct 22, 2022

Hi - I feel like we are in sort of of the same situation. I have...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/762150/

Discussion: Multifocal and Multicentric Breast Cancer

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Oct 17, 2022

Wow, that is a heavily debated question. Just so that you understand we are not doctors...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/633578/

Discussion: Bilateral mastectomy: how to decide on hormone therapy or not?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 7, 2021

I had a second opinion a couple of years ago with an entirely new cancer clinic...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/262794/

Discussion: How many of you have changed oncologists because you did not like the?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 27, 2019

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