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Anyone use Mometasone cream for radiation side effect?
I just started radiation today after my lumpectomy, and was given a prescription for mometasone furoate 0.1% cream. I'm wondering if anyone else has used...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 13 2:34pm
Painful lump/spots after lumpectomy not going away?
Hello all I am 10 weeks post last surgery (ILC with lumpectomy and then re-excision). I have had some painful spots since the 1st surgery,...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 30, 2023
Is there anyone that had estrogen positive cancer, without use of AI?
Is there anyone with stage 1 breast cancer, estrogen positive that had a lumpectomy followed by radiation without any other treatment and has remained cancer...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jul 23 8:55am
have current implants - do I choose lumpectomy/rad or mastectomy
Hi- I currently have implants and have been dx with Stage 1a Invasive Ductal Carcinoma. I am struggling with choosing lumpectomy or mastectomy because of...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jul 5 1:16pm
Angiosarcoma of the breast caused by previous breast radiation
I have recently been diagnosed with an angiosarcoma in my breast. The doctors say it was probably caused by previous radiation of that breast following...
Support Group: Sarcoma
Last active: Aug 16 8:52am
Treatment plan questions following my wife's recent diagnosis?
Wife (age72 in good health) was diagnosed with breast cancer (DCIS, Hormone Receptor Positive, IDC)? a few weeks ago after an imaging test and a...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 23 3:32pm
Radiation fibrosis vs axillary webbing
I’m six months post op lumpectomy and SLN biopsy, radiation. All healed and doing ok but now new tightening armpit and affected chest so limiting...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Aug 11, 2024
Shrinking breast after treatments
Has anyone else had a breast shrink after lumpectomy, radiation and about a year on anastrozole? ( I had DCIS.) The other breast , the...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 20, 2023
Breast pain/inflammation and swelling post radiation?
Hello all, Wondering if any of you has experienced whole breast swelling and pain (post lumpectomy) a month or two after radiation treatment..? I was...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jul 3, 2024
Radiation or not
Hi, I’m 77 and had a lumpectomy for invasive ductal carcinoma. ER+, Her2-, 1.4cm. Oncologist said radiation and tamoxifen, Tamoxifen because I have mild osteoporosis...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jun 3 8:26am
Unilateral breast swelling after radiation on other breast
4 weeks ago I finished 5 sessions of radiation on my right breast after a lumpectomy. There was no lymph node involvement. 3 days after...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Aug 20 8:42am
After lumpectomy? What's next?
I had a lumpectomy on 9/14 for DCIS that was upgraded from grade 0 to grade 1-2 malignant micro aggressive via biopsys (2) (calcifications) report....
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 24, 2023
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
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
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
Pain and tightness axila to bottom of rib cage
4 months after a week of hypo - fractionated radiation RX and lumpectomy I have developed tenderness under affected axila and tightness on same side...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 25 10:06pm
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
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
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
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: Jul 28 3:57pm