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Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC): Anyone else?
I have rec’d 4 chemo + 16 radiation treatments for invasive. Has lumpectomie 1st....then one week later... Dissection 17 lymph nodes & 3 tumors removed...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 24, 2024
Should radiation start if breast has a hematoma?
I’m going to be getting radiation therapy in about 2 weeks. My question is what happens if I still have this hematoma? Do they go...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jun 17, 2024
Breast pain years after lumpectomy, nipple inverting.
Breast cancer 1996 (left breast & lymph node involvement). Chemotherapy/Radiation and Tamoxifen for 5 yrs. Now having pain and my nipple is sinking in. Mammogram...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 15, 2023
ddAC chemo & Paclitaxel
Hello, I was DX with ILC last June. Had a lumpectomy with 6 nodes diseased and removed. Because of the number of nodes found I...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: May 15 5:16pm
Anyone had 33 sessions of radiation for DCIS with lymph node?
I was diagnosed woth DCIS with Lymp Node involvement.My Omcology Radiologist told.me that I will have to do 33 treatments of radiation.I have already had...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 6, 2024
Sudden pain along lumpectomy scar 4 months after surgery
I was awakened from my sleep with pain by my lumpectomy scar 4 months after surgery and 2 months after radiation. Was swollen and lumpy...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 30, 2023
Anyone experience mood swings and nervousness with Anastrozole?
I have been taking anastrozole for only 5 months now. I had a lumpectomy and 20 radiation treatments. Just recently I have been experiencing nervousness...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Dec 18, 2022
Anyone have experience with APBI (Partial Breast Irradiation)?
Anyone familiar with external partial radiation for early stage BC? I am 8 weeks post lumpectomy and deciding on radiation for my left breast...which has...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 18, 2022
Repeat lumpectomy? And treatment decisions. Need advice
Just had lumpectomy Dec 1. Pathology report was: positive margin on the posterior edge DCIS Micropapillary Grade 2. My surgeon called me yesterday for re-excision...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 28, 2024
A lot of questions: DCIS treatments and second opinions?
Hi!I am a 67 yo, recently diagnosed with dcis stage 0, 7mm spot, the cells were stage 2.I’m wondering a few things;1. Can they fi...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 16 8:33am
How To Decide Next Steps After Lumpectomy.
I am 66 years old and I had a lumpectomy and oncoplastic breast reduction on June 23 after being diagnosed with IDC IA, pT1a, pN0(sn),...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 26, 2021
What did you do to help radiation burn?
After lumpectomy & lymph node removal (margins & nodes showed no cancer) I had 15 rounds or radiation in 3 weeks. At the end of...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 4 1:50pm
Breast Reduction/Lift Post Radiation
Hello all, I had Stage 1 ER/PR HER2- breast cancer in 2020. I had a lumpectomy, radiation and am currently on Anastrozole. I am considering...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Aug 18, 2024
Radiated breast remains smaller and harder post reconstruction
11/22 i had a lumpectomy of the left breast. Radiation followed and am presently on Letrozole. The radiated breast remains harder than the right breast...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 21 1:26pm
Oncotype score 27 or higher with reoccurrence
Hello all, I have been diagnosed with stage 1 ductal carcinoma w/ 1 node affected. My oncotype score was 27. I have had 8 rounds...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 27 12:22pm
Issues with ribs and cartilage after radiation: What can I do?
I finished radiation last August after a lumpectomy. Everything was fine for a couple months. In late December I fractured a rib coughing. A month...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 31, 2022
Radiation therapy after chemo for bc
Hi everyone. I have just completed 16 weeks of chemo after having a lumpectomy for bc. I have suffered extreme fatigue where I can barely...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 28, 2019
Oil Cyst in Breast
Hi. I had stage 1 ER+, PR+, HER2- breast cancer treated in 2016 with radiation and lumpectomy, currently on exemestane. Margins were clear but have...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: May 23, 2022
Right breast cancer DCIS: Is 4-5 weeks of radiation normal protocol?
I recently was diagnosed with (DCIS) stage 1, her2 negative, both hormones positive, 4mm size tumor. I chose to have a lumpectomy and do hormone...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 19, 2024
Skin changes on breast
Long story short. I had a left breast lumpectomy and 35 sessions of radiation for TNBC ductal carcinoma in situ in 2012. 2021 I had...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 3, 2024