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...rated diet keeps you healthy even more so if you are already a cancer patient. Specially when treated by chemo and suffering from loss of appetite, feeling tired or nausea & vomiting a good nutrit...
What helps you threw the Holidays when you are having trouble with chemo and missing family?:unsure:
...ife less than eight months later.
During the course of his cancer treatment, as it became apparent that chemotherapy and radiation treatments would not suffice, more medications were tried. My fath...
Has anyone experienced joint pain throughout their body after completing chemo treatments? If so, was your medical team able to identify what caused it and more importantly how to relieve the pain.
...rial breast cancer (DCIS 1.6 cm and invasive 4 cm lumps), lymph nodes were clear. Completed 6 months of chemo and 6 weeks of radiation and taking tamoxifan. Still experiencing chemo-induced menopaus...
...is working ( i hope).
he also said that if he feels i need more than the arimidex he will put me on the chemo pill. he also discussed way down the line if i need it a stem cell transplant.
my lungs ...
I have mets to spine and neck (as well as nodes and lung - but chemo starts next Friday), and was put on Dexamethasone while undergoing radiation. I have the "moon face", where it looks like I've gain
I do understand that there are many causes & kinds of short-term memory loss.
After chemotherapy, I was recovering & doing pretty good, until they put me on Arimidex. This caused a condition
...st cancer zapped the energy from Betsy Derrington, 50, of Ballwin,
Mo. The surgery and the six months of chemotherapy left her weak and tired. Back then (she was diagnosed in 1986, when she was 36 yea...
...t cancer zapped the energy from Betsy Derrington, 50, of Ballwin, Mo. The surgery and the six months of chemotherapy left her weak and tired. Back then (she was diagnosed in 1986, when she was 36 ye...
...urls, which were tangling too badly for me to manage any more.
The woman who cut my hair, said that the chemotherapy had probably damaged the ends or something. ??? Even the conditioner she put on ...
...hart typically shown to patients after surgery offers four post-surgery options: hormonal therapy alone, chemotherapy alone, hormonal therapy and chemotherapy combined, or no treatment. But researcher...
...best prognosis but opted for a wide local excision plus reconstruction with an implant. The next step is chemotherapy (FEC) which I start next week and today I have been instructed to come off Tamoxif...
...con't remind me I need to take Hormone Therapy for five years. My concern is I have Osteoporosis and the chemo name taxol cyt which cause me to suffer for three days and nights.
I concern about the ...
...my research is whether the oncologist or radiologist orders it for us and do we all bc patients getting chemo and radiation need it? Can anyone answer these questions for me? I sure don't want my h...
...t methods of treatment in use in the United States are: surgery (mastectomy and lumpectomy), radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and monoclonal antibody therapy.
Antibodies are proteins in the...
...drink more and I try to take regular exercise but to no avail. I had a mastectomy three years ago but no chemo. Perhaps menopause is to blame. I am 53, however I find it really upsetting since my cons...
... the vein in my left arm which she usually does and she said the ones in my hands were worn out from the Chemotherapy treatments too. As some of you may recall, I wear a Lymphedema Alert Bracelet on ...
...s no mets? How about 5 yr survival rates for women who have no recurrance of BC after the first round of chemo vs if the women get
BC again after a round of chemo?
Anyone have any sources?
Thanks...
MammaPrint has the ability to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.
Dr. Laura van 't Veer, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, presented the data at the 2008 San Antonio
Is there a "set" time that they must wait to do our radiation treatments after we are done with Chemo? Is it the same for everyone or does it depend on what type of Chem we get and for how long? I
My relative just got confirmed to have breast cancer. She had the breast removed and will now go on to chemotherapy.
She has been referred to Jason Winters tea. Is this a genuine cure or at least hel
I am in my 3rd cycle of chemo (CMF) and will then undergo radiation and hormonal therapy. I asked my oncologist what my prognosis for this coming back and the possibility of getting mets in any part o
...y. It seems to be an excellent drug - killing off tumours with fewer side effects than her previous FEC chemotherapy. One problem is that it is causing her finger nails to become detached. Has anyb...
...home remedies that I'm not thinking about? Has anyone else had this same experience? By the way
I start chemo on 12-8, I don't know if that is relevent to this or not. Any help will be appreciated. D...
Hi again everyone,
I have been on tamoxifen for 2.5 years now following lumpectomy, chemo & radiation. I had not had a period for a year, but got one two weeks ago. I'm 46 and my gyn. wants to do
I had my lumpectomy 911 02. SNB all nodes clear, chemo and rads. Now I'm having lots of pain in my breast. I keep hearing that that is normal. Some times it is so sore that I grab at my chest to supp
Hello All. My wife finished 6 months of chemo (first A/C then weekly taxotere) on July 12. However, since the middle of May she`s had a nagging dry cough. It usually comes in fits that last 10 to 15
Hi. I am new to this board. I am 52 year old female 3x bc. Last recurrence was 2005 and was on chemo, herceptin and presently on arimidex. Recently I found an enlarged supraclavicle node on my left
Well, I hung in and finished all of my chemo treatments. On Monday I have to see the onc and choose between Tamoxifin, or being part of a study using Arimidex.
Has Tamoxifin given anyone in here
Today after I finished my 2nd radiation treatment (already had 4 AC
Chemos), the doctor in Radiology department brought to my attention that he found it odd that I was Her+ and ER+. I asked if it cou
My sister has Stage IV bc with mets to the spine. She just finished chemo (six cycles of Taxotere plus A/C) and will be having bilateral mastectomies in the next month or so. (No reconstruction becaus
...minutes. I love the middle piece on the hat that makes it look like a "biker's hat" and not the typical chemo hat. The pattern photos don't do it justice. They do look like the biker's hats from sp...
My wife has recently started on a drug called capecitabine, an oral chemotherapy drug, for a recurrence of her breast cancer. This drug can cause hand-foot syndrome (redness & swelling of the skin
... tell me if your scalp is supposed to be painful when you are getting near to loosing your hair after a Chemo treatment? It hurts just to run my fingers through my hair (which is short) and sometime...
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