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...ever, PET was done by a fellow student. He wrote down erroneous clinical hx. He said patient 'may have lymphedema in left arm.' I have lymphedema in my right arm--had sleeve on at time of appt--and...
...ht Breast - 4 x Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma tumours, diameters 9 to 15mm, Nuclear grade 3, ER & PR + Lymphovascular involvement Node positive (3/31; 2 axilla, 1 IMC) Right MRM March 2003...
...ng Hope on Layaway Kay R. Daly One year ago last Monday, my father passed away after a brief bout with lymphoma. A year later, I am still dealing with his health care issues. We had always though...
...d of the danger scale. In the first case, he will just excise the lump, in the second he will take some lymph nodes to see if anything has spread. Apparently, papillomas are one of the rarer kinds o...
...earned - THANKS! I am 43 yrs old, I had bilaterial 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 tamoxi...
...here is no channel reconstruction possible? Would seeing a consultant be a waste of time? Accepting the lymphodema is not going to go away, is there any comfort to be had? Once she wears the sleeve ...
...sed with breast cancer in 1999. She was 68 then. She had a lumpectomy in 12/99, with the removal of many lymph nodes. The doctor took a lot of nodes and tissue from under her arm. She then had radiati...
...ootprintsangel and I have decided to open up a special area here on this forum for people suffering from lymphedema - after cancer treatment. We would like to place articles here with information a...
...ly from the beginning, then worse & worse over time), ... seem to be mostly permanent, ... as is the lymphedema which the Arimidex (after about a year of my taking it) caused in my left arm. Ar...
hello every one my name is numera and iam new in this group and iam really very please to see such a nice group where every one wants to help each other i have some questions regarding pain in should
...n showed a 4mm node on my right lung. So far I haven't been dx'd with any metastasis's but I did have 2 lymph nodes involved. Apparently nothing is done until it reaches 5mm so I'm off for another s...
...ou with the details of my situation as of late--too complicated to even relate all that is going on. My lymphedema arm has been worsening since December and have been again bounced around like a ping...
...rgins, stage 2, invasive ductal carcinoma, ER and PR positive, HER2 negative Axill node dissection..29 lymph nodes taken and 2 were cancerous. 4 cycles of A/C and 33 rad treatments all ending june...
...e last summer and have recently done some 'toe-dipping'). Last June I had a lumpectomy and removal of 13 lymph glands, all clear, followed by radiation treatment and Tamoxifen. I recovered very quickl...
Is anyone familiar with lymphoceles and do you know if they resolve themselves?:S
...ave all the info in order to (hopefully) give me advice. I was wondering how anyone else has dealt with lymphedema. I have some swelling in my hand and a couple of fingers which the docs have determ...
...ago. It hurt intermittently until last August when it same upper arm began hurting daily. It is my non-lymphedema arm. I am not favoring it more. I still carry my shoulder bag on my lymphedema arm...
Has anyone had lymphedema in the hollow of your neck? I had lymphedema in my left arm after lymphnode dissection and it backs up at times into my neck area. Just wondering if I am the only one. Than
I was on Arimidex for maybe a year, when I got sudden acute lymphedema in my left arm. This was very disabling & painful. The arm & wrist have remained swollen for months, & (at times)
...een on mammogram, occur without an associated mass. Stages of cancer Is determined by size of tumor, if lymph nodes are involved, and if it has spread. Stage 0: abnormal cells lining a gland or duct...
...nes in my hands were worn out from the Chemotherapy treatments too. As some of you may recall, I wear a Lymphedema Alert Bracelet on my right wrist and do not allow needles etc. in that arm. The tec...
... didn't need to see) and had superfluous treeatments (not needed). Then this past November/December, my lymphedema arm which had worsened seemed to progressively worsen since December. I was again g...
I was wondering if anyone knew what an aortocaval lymph node is and what the significance of an enlarged one might mean? Is there a way to biopsy it or can it be removed? Where exactly is it? If ma
...e Radiation Pneumonitis after radiotherapy to chest wall, internal mammary chain and/or supraclavicular lymph nodes (for breast cancer)? If so, what are the symptoms? When did the symptoms appear? ...
...se. Factors that help determine the risk for breast cancer recurrence. Cancer cells present in the lymph nodes Size of the tumor Cancer grade Cell growth rate Hormone receptor status...
...ompanied by sharp tingling sensation in a few of the fingers on that hand. This is the arm I DON'T have lymphedema in. The following week--one week after cortisone injection--I had my 3rd Zometa inf...
...n the FS group. Lung metastasis incidence was 55.6% in the BD group and 22.2% in the FS group, while the lymph node metastasis incidence was 88.9% in the BD group and 33.3% in the FS group (P < 0.05)....
Hello all, I had a lumpectomy with a sentinel node biopsy and lymph node removal on 11-19. I'm experiencing quite a bit of swelling and discomfort under my arm. I have seen the doctor twice and he te
...d presently on arimidex. Recently I found an enlarged supraclavicle node on my left side but I also had lymphedema swelling on that side. I went to md and he gave me levaquin for 10 days but it is s...
...dwork & CAT scans, which seem to be of so little value in treating Cancer. I can't get care for the lymphedema, because I don't have the $10 or so gas money that it would cost every day, to drive...
...p and get back in the chair and just wait. They had to wait for the stuff to actually get trapped in the lymph nodes and that usually takes a while. I think I fell asleep in the chair. I know I was so...
... side effects I am on Arimidex and side effect is lymphedema...
... were done and he told me this AM there is a nodule in both lungs and I have an enlarged supraclavicular lymph node that needs to be biopsied, but the blood counts have to be stabilized first. Would ...
...it seems that mastectomies aren't too bad in terms of pain and recovery time. But how do they remove the lymph nodes? Can they get at them through the mastectomy incision, or do they need to make anot...
...of them will eventually develop distant metastases, and die from the disease. Vascular invasion, through lymphatic and blood vessels, is the major route for cancer spreading to regional lymph nodes an...
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