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...hers for the 400 or so covered prescription drugs available to Medicare patients, usually in hospitals and doctors offices. The system is flawed since the prices are neither "average" nor are they th...
...oblems Herceptin/Taxol related? I would be grateful for any answers; I like working in the garden ;-). The doctors do not know, because - at least in The Netherlands - treatment with Taxol/Herceptin i...
After breast surgery, many doctors show patients a bar chart that outlines their follow-up treatment options. But a new study has found that most women are confused by their options, and that confusio
...y first mamogram back in April 2000, they found nothing. I am definately scared about this.... I do have a doctors appointment next Monday, but it is for something else and I will tell him about this....
...aking the breast cancer drug tamoxifen may reduce the effectiveness of the tumor-fighting medication, U.S. doctors said on Tuesday. Their study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institu...
...t quality & focus of medical/PHARMA care. It's been my experience so far, that drug companies & doctors will ignore all bad results & all problems with their meds, ... until there's a c...
...g up, hang in there. You will get past this. Try to pick your treatments and meds from peace vs. fear. The doctors have to tell us the worst case scenarios and that gets us in a place of fear if we le...
...es in the snow, but can't quite tell what they are. By this time though, I was putting all my faith in the doctors and nurses. I didn't care anymore, I just wanted this to be over with. By 12:30, i ...
I was reading a website http://my.webmd.com/content/article/51/40639?src=Inktomi&condition=Menopause on Post Menopause to try understand what really makes a woman considered to be "post menopa
...o the use of celecoxib, an arthritis drug, to reduce capecitabine side effects. I've also heard that some doctors recommend nicotine patches! If anybody has any information, I'd be very grateful to ...
...and chemotherapy, and have fairly good prognoses at what is called Stage 2 cancer. But cancer experts and doctors are divided over whether these women really need radiation to improve their chances o...
...siders shoes to be harmless. Nonetheless, please keep an open mind to the possibility that scientists and doctors (even the smartest Nobel Prize winners) have all overlooked something common as the c...
...asked this before. For many years, I had a small lump just under the skin of my left breast, which the doctors kept assuring me was benign. In Jan. 1998, I was seriously injured when I hit & sl...
...r patient (it seems like they do). The clinical trial was done using Avastin in combination with Taxol. Doctors are faced with a problem of whether to use Taxol and forgo Avastin, or to use some ot...
...ys my quality of life, ... for five years. And with the added worry/concern (as repeatedly told me by the doctors), that it probably won't work anyway. Is there a test to measure the exact results, ...
...umpectomy plus signal lymph node dissection. It was caught on a routine mammogram. Problem: I really hate doctors and the whole medical system. I have had a few past medical problems and have watch...
...of breast cancer survivors had at least one other cause of bone loss -- such as vitamin D deficiency. "Doctors evaluating breast cancer patients for possible bone loss should look further than can...
...res,etc.). Keep lines of commmunication open and develop relationships with key decision makers in your doctors' office, medical facilities and insurance provider(s). Periodically, check to be c...
The doctors here refuse to see & diagnose most medical conditions, ... so I learn things on my own, often by accident. Cancer Treatments & IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Recently in a tabloi
Breast Surgeon, Third Mastectomy According to all the doctors & nurses I`ve seen (since the visit to LSU), & all those I`ve spoken to on the phone, ... the rest of the breast will need to be remov
...because many women have unrealistic expectations of what their breasts will look like after lumpectomy. Doctors from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center surveyed more than 700 wo...
...wer in Britain than in some other European countries because of patients wait too long to see a doctor and doctors wait too long to refer the patients for treatment. The report, presented Friday a...
... she needed a biopsy done immediately, and gave her some phone numbers of specialists in her area. Of the doctors she was able to reach, none took her health insurance (Blue Cross). I did a director...
...sied the lump itself. It's not terribly large - my GP said it felt about 1 cm to him (none of the hospital doctors have told me how large it felt to them). Whereas the doctor last time felt around for...
...r almost two weeks now and can find almost no information and I'm hoping someone here can tell me what the doctors (or more specifically the nurses and p.a.'s we all get relegated to these days) seem ...
...it must have spread. Especially since I have had loads of weird symptoms for the past few months that the doctors couldn't pin point. I have then got to have 7 months of chemo after the op and the...
...insurance companies are requiring the biopsies, before they will approve the breast surgeries. maybe the doctors have no choice about it, if they want to get approval & get paid. the doctors & rad...
...rces for procedures for physicians when cancer is suspected? 4) Any suggestions on next steps? 5) Any good doctors that you know of in Connecticut who handle this sort of thing? I would prefer respo...
...or topic on lymphedema on the forum. Just wanted to post that if you do have lymphedema there is help. Doctors don't always tell patients about the risk factors before breast cancer surgery becaus...
..., but her overall health has deteriorated. She can barely walk (uses wheelchair) and has rapid heart rate. Doctors can't seem to help. I don't understand how her cancer can be stable during the past...
...t cancer clinic and Dr. Ruth Heimann was the radiologist I saw; I would be comfortable with any one of the doctors there. At U. of C, the doctors are on the hospital payroll and do not have private pr...
...o be using tumor marker blood tests to track your progress. They aren't 100% accurate all the time so some doctors may not want to bother with them. They are simply an indicator....
...reatment in Sept. 2000. In April this year the the cancer came back - this time uncurable according to the doctors, and they found it in both lungs, the liver and in her bones. She then immediately st...
...eek course of treatment had about the same risk of recurrence as those who got the standard 5-week course, doctors from the Juravinski Cancer Centre at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada...
...tial for clinical activity among different agents of the same class. Genetic profiles are able to help doctors determine which patients will probably develop cancer, and those who will most likely...
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