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I even had a lumpectomy when it was just "micro calcifications" - these are pre-cancerous as...
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@frank1956 I am glad you are being proactive and there to support your wife. The pathology...
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Preparing for Chemotherapy
Prior to surgery, I got some excellent recommendations on this forum about how to prepare for breast surgery. Now that surgery is over, I will...
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Too slim to have reconstruction after a partial mastectomy: Options?
I'm diagnosed IDC stage 2, Er+, Pr- , Her2 Neg.Surgeon wants me to have a single wide excision / partial mastectomy with tissue sparing .My...
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Breast Cancer and complementary or integrative therapies
Hi All, I am newly diagnosed Stage 1, IDC, tiny tumor, 42 year old. Does everyone elect to have surgery as step 1, does anyone...
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Aromatose inhibitors/ mastectomy w/ diep flap reconstruction
This post is threefold. First, I am currently taking anastrozole. I had IDC in 2018 and have been taking it since. I had DCIS in...
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BP, IVs and blood draws after bilateral breast cancer w/node removal
I have had bilateral breast cancer with lumpectomy (both breasts) and lymph nodes removed on both sides. My tumor markers have risen...10 points over 4...
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Macrometastasis and Age at Diagnosis
Hi, I'm a new poster here. I've been lurking for almost 2 years now and have garnered a wealth of information from many of you...
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Mastectomies are not an option for those over 65???!!!
A friend of mine has had breast cancer twice...DCIS and IDC....both breasts....as I have. She told me that she had suggested mastectomy to her surgeon...
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How many of you have changed oncologists because you did not like the?
I found out I had stage 1 breast cancer last April. My former oncologist (this was my second time around...first BC in 2007) had retired....
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