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Welcome @crteelect. Given your family history, you have a legimate reason for being cautious about radiation...
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I’m taking every other day for a month (without my oncologist’s approval). No side effects so...
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On breastcancer.org I have attended zoom meetings. On Mayo the connect forum. A number of women...
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Completed 5 years of anastrozole. Withdrawal symptoms? Side effects?
Monday, July 23rd, after consulting with Dr. Loprinzi, we decided to have me stop taking anastrozole. (Arimidex). It has been 5 years since I started...
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Extreme fatigue after stopping HRT and lumpectomy
Anyone else experience this after stopping HRT? I'm ok from morning to about 12:30. Then I start to fade and need to take a nap...
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Stopping AI and starting Tamoxifen
I can’t stand the amount of joint pain and disfigurement of my feet anymore from Letrozole so I stopped it, can’t believe how much better...
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Atypical lobular hyperplasia: Did you have surgery?
August 2021, I was diagnosed with invasive DCIS in my left breast. I underwent a lumpectomy, chemo, and radiation. I am currently on Anastrozole. August...
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Breast cancer treatment and kidney problems
I've been on arimidex for 10 months for breast cancer, stage 2. Had lumpectomy, 30 rounds of radiation. Been on 2 other inhibitors, side effects...
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Lymphedema in the chest wall
I just got back from my oncologists office and I found out that I have lymphedema in my chest wall. I was surprised because I...
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Lumpectomy vs Unilateral mastectomy no reconstruction
I am 46 and three weeks into my stage 1, IDC, HR+, HERS- diagnosis. I have two small tumors in one breast. My genetic testing...
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Withdrawals from Stopping Bioidentical Hormone
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in July of 2021 and told to immediately stop using bioidentical hormones which I had been on for about...
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Neuroendocrine breast cancer
I have just learned that in addition to invasive ductal breast cancer that I also have neuroendocrine cancer which I am told is aggressive. I...
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Stage O DCIS and heart-related questions
I have Stage 0 DCIS. The plan was to do a lumpectomy with radiation but I also have heart valve issues and hypertrophy cardiomyopathy with...
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