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... 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 father would laug...
...49 years old); breast amputation and removal of nodes in 1998 with afterwards FEC treatment, Tamoxifen and irradiation. After 2 years (februari this year) recurrence with extensive lung involvement, n...
...r (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 menopause and low white b...
... I am 45, had IDC diagnosed in Oct. 2000. Tumor 1.7 cm (normal mammogram 4 months before!) Lumpectomy, CMF, radiation, then CMF. A few months after rads, my breast became edematous-- my cup size wen...
... the removal of many lymph nodes. The doctor took a lot of nodes and tissue from under her arm. She then had radiation.
Earlier this year she had calcifications show up in her mammogram so had an ex...
...ck (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 gained 50 pounds in my face alo...
...one 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 quickly and, apart from irritating side...
...earch 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 heart d...
...owing and tend to stick together.
The higher the grade the more susceptible the cells are to treatment like radiation.
Hormone receptors
Breast cancer cells can have hormone receptors. They are eit...
Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of the Radiation
Pneumonitis after radiotherapy to chest wall, internal mammary chain and/or supraclavicular lymph nodes (for breast cancer)?
If so, what
...haven't seen the oncologist yet, but based on everything I've read and my Path
Report, at this point I think radiation and/or drugs (tamoxifen?) would be overtreatment. I'm wondering if I even have to...
...ay to biopsy it or can it be removed? Where exactly is it? If malignant what symptoms might there be? Can radiation help?...
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
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
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 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
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
...d will be having bilateral mastectomies in the next month or so. (No reconstruction because she'll be having radiation and the doctor says it would "shrivel 'em like raisins.")
From what I've read he...
...ly 1 cm in size, negative nodes, negative for mets. I was told it would be a lumpectomy, 7 and 1/2 weeks of radiation with a possibility of Tamoxifen since my tumor was hormone receptor +.
The fi...
...size I want to have both breasts removed, along with my ovaries, uterus (complete hysterectomy), followed by radiation, but probably no chemotherapy unless the cancer has spread significantly. I don'...
...If some of you may recall, I had surgery for bc in the right breast and after I completed my Chemo and my 35 radiation treatments my former Oncologist put me on Tamoxifen since I was Herp2+ and ER+. ...
...ph nodes affected. this is her second month of chemo. She expects to be on chemo for 6 months, and then have radiation for 3 more. Initially the nausea was violent and explosive. This last round hasn'...
I saw my radiologist today to schedule radiation. I had a lumpectomy on May
4th, but there is a lot of pain and swelling and a hard lump under one of the scars. The doctor told me it was a very larg
...uipment. It is terribly cold this week in
New York. He said that if they determine that its brain mets, then radiation may shrink the mets and prolong her life from 3-6 months, possibly even restoring...
I am new to this group, I am 42, with DCIS, had lumpectomy, chemo (ATC), and have just started radiation. My cancer is estrogen/progest positive. My oncologist wants me to take tomoxifin (for 5 year
..., age 37, has just started on a 5-year course of tamoxifen, now that she has had a lumpectomy and completed radiation treatment. She is having hot flashes but hasn`t noticed any other side effects y...
...rib closer to where the incision was. My nipple is extremely tender and sore. The skin has healed from the radiation treatment. Incidentally, some of the soreness was there prior to cancer being di...
I lost the address of the site where you can order the cream for radiation burns. Mom has 2 more chemo treatments and then starts radiation. Thanks for your help. Bev.
February 24, 2004
A Debate on Radiation in Breast Cancer
By LAURIE TARKAN adiation treatment is being prescribed for more and more breast cancer patients, including women who would have been told ju
Can you tell me how long after surgery I might have to wait before starting chemo and radiation, if they're necessary.
If it takes 6 to 8 weeks to heal from a mastectomy and auxillory dissection, do
...e surgeon on Thursday and have been told by the radiologist that I'll have a lumpectomy and several weeks of radiation therapy. Needless to say I'm really nervous and upset. Has anyone here had this? ...
...termine this at this stage?
2. Understanding that my Mother is not interested in taking on chemo-therapy and radiation, or perhaps even major surgery, is there anything with light side effects that mi...
...move cancerous tissue in one breast, and some of her lymph nodes. She is in the tail end of a six-week-long radiation treatment, which is to be followed by five years of tamoxifen. She`s 36, and th...
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First mastectomy for breast cancer was performed.
1895 Wilhelem Conrad Rontgen discovers
a new kind of radiation that he calls x-rays.
1896 Removel of the ovaries is performed.
for the first...
My wife's elevated liver enzymes (ALT,AST) which prompted a call for a PET scan from our oncologist has led instead to treatment for hypothyroidism.
My wife's numbers: T4,
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