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Body Image after mastectomy and reconstructive surgeries
Hello, I’m grateful for my doctors and diagnostic team! This question feels a little ungrateful but it’s real. I’m working to find normal and having...
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Double Mastectomy-Considering DIEP flap~Timing and Recovery Questions
I was diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) ER+, Nuclear grade 3 in my left breast. My local physician was so nonchalant about the...
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Ideas for relief of armpit pain after a double mastectomy?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/ideas-for-relief-of-armpit-pain-after-a-double-mastectomy/
I just had a double mastectomy with reconstruction. My arm pit pain is sharper than any other pain. I’m taking my muscle relaxers and pain...
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Declining Chemotherapy
Hello. I was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast. I chose to have a double mastectomy with reconstruction. The oncologist has recommended...
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What Keytruda side effects did you have (after chemo)?
I finish six months of chemotherapy, followed by a double mastectomy reconstruction. Thank God, I am cancer free! I will be on Keytruda for one...
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What precautions should I take after Skin sparing Mastectomy?
I had skin sparing Mastectomy on 4th Jan and reconstruction with muscle flap.I want to know what kind of precautions I have to take now...
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Reconstructive at same time as lumpectomy, then radiation?
Hi, I am 59 years old and I was diagnosed HER2 triple positive in Feb and started chemo in March. I am having chemo #5...
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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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Anyone taking Lupron (leuprolide) for breast cancer?
My 42 year old daughter was diagnosed with stage 1 Grade 2 Invasive ductal carcinoma and extensive DCIS. She had mastectomy with reconstruction in April....
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Please share your experience with the Diep Flap Procedure
I had a bilateral mastectomy and had implants removed due to an infection. I am now at a point that I can consider reconstruction. At...
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Can you explain fat grafting reconstruction? So no implants and not Diep?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/953576/
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@shell2023, are you deciding whether to do reconstruction or not? How goes the decision making?
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