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I developed lymphedema in my left breast 2 years after lumpectomy with intraoperative radiation and post-surgery...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/321086/

Discussion: Lymphedema in the chest wall

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 8, 2020

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/781687/

Discussion: What did you do to help radiation burn?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 6, 2022

I was dx in April 2025 with HR+PR+ Her2- invasive ductal carcinoma in the left breast....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1349556/

Discussion: Is there anyone that had estrogen positive cancer, without use of AI?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jul 16 11:21am

Texas5, I'm in a similar position with the decision to radiate causing more anxiety than the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1187429/

Discussion: Did anyone else decide to not have radiation?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Dec 9, 2024

I had a right breast mastectomy in December '21 and developed a seroma that required regular...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/901467/

Discussion: Radiation induced fibrosis: How are you managing it?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jul 24, 2023

I'm 80 in October. I was found to have HER2 positive breast cancer. I had a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/638844/

Discussion: How To Decide Next Steps After Lumpectomy.

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 25, 2021

You’ve likely already sought out the guidance of your oncologist. My doctor did a mamma-print to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/261433/

Discussion: Stage 2 breast cancer: What treatments decisions did you have to make?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: May 9, 2019

I had a lumpectomy in Oct 2021 for Invasive DCIS and was scheduled at a later...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1032156/

Discussion: Anyone else have lumpectomy followed by breast reduction?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 12, 2024

@margaretb I was thinking about you this morning, just wanted to check in on you and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/926991/

Discussion: Tumor Invasion to Pectoral Muscle?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Sep 9, 2023

I had necrosis from having radiation in 1996. New cancers in same breast this year. Wound...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/314015/

Discussion: Lumpectomy scar healing time

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Oct 25, 2020

Did you have radiation treatment to your tonsils when you were a child? X-ray treatment can...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/284811/

Discussion: I've had 3 cancers: Thyroid cancer, Lung Cancer and Breast Cancer

Support Group: Cancer

Posted: Jul 29, 2020

@wendeth hello Wendy, my mother just started her radiation treatment this week and I was wondering...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/166559/

Discussion: Metastatic Breast Cancer: Whole brain radiation side effects

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 14, 2020

I too smelled ammonia in my urine before surgery but my radiation nurse said that's just...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1265220/

Discussion: Smelling cancer!

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Mar 23 7:29pm

My stepdaughter started her second round of chemo in January and she will go until November....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1321600/

Discussion: Cancer cells floating in the chest wall area

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jun 6 11:48am

My oncologist told me the same: not true, you can have radiation/lumpectomy again and said but...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1009273/

Discussion: DCIS do I really need an AI?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 4, 2024

Likewise, my DCISion RT test came back showing that even WITH radiation, my recurrence risk was...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1000343/

Discussion: DCIS breast cancer?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 19, 2024

I had 7 weeks of radiation and it did seem the fatigue got worse as time...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/241414/

Discussion: Radiation therapy after chemo for bc

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 23, 2019

Glad I found this forum! I just had a lumpectomy for a confirmed ILC tumour, 1.4...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1246035/

Discussion: Atypical lobular hyperplasia: Did you have surgery?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 26 1:56pm

I didn’t realize there was such a thing as “tamoxifen retinopathy”. It seems to be dose...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1004742/

Discussion: Blurry eyes after starting Tamoxifen?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Jan 27, 2024

I had stage 1a ILC. I am 66 years old and quite active. I had a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1244278/

Discussion: Stage 1 lobular breast cancer, anyone no treatment after surgery?

Support Group: Breast Cancer

Posted: Feb 24 7:19am

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