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I need to replace my Port-A-Cath again, probably some time this week. As my surgeon was skipping out of my ER cubicle, he said that I could pretty much have it sited anywhere I wanted. Huh? I though
...vered a lump about three weeks ago. I've just had a mammogram, ultrasound, FNA, and thick needle biopsy. Surgeon says the biopsy came out well but he is somewhat concerned about the FNA result. I a...
...ng-- I applied pressure, and was rewarded with a grainy white substance spewing forth. According the my surgeon, it is ecstasia (dead cells), and a benign process. Two days ago, I suddenly had al...
...Since then she has been having painful fluid buildup in that breast. She says the breast is rock hard. The surgeon has drained it a couple of times and told her she has fibrocystic breast disease. I...
...: gas, hot flashes, no sleep AT ALL unless i take the sleeping pill. oct 16th i had a Mediastinal biopsy. surgeon went thru my neck to get the biopsies of the chest wall. it appears that the arimidex...
...thought this type of scan was not indicated from what was going on. Afterwards, I received a call from my surgeon. She talked to me for an extended period--maybe she felt guilty? I saw her Monday m...
...o inked surgical margins in several areas, approaching to within 0.2 mm of the closest inked margin"). The surgeon wants to do a lumpectomy to get cleaner margins. I haven't seen the oncologist yet, b...
...old me it wouldn't be a 'quick look' if he had to write it up. He is now telling me he wants me to see my surgeon and mentions something about "chest wall recurrence." This was on a Friday. I then ...
...ch reported either a synovial cyst or mass. (My onc. told me to call my neurologist and ask to see a neurosurgeon. My neurologist had retired and was scheduled for a neurologist appt. 3 weeks after ...
... rather delayed radiotherapy (started at 17 weeks post op). Two things concern me (at least): First, the surgeon suggested an appointment at 6 months, which we cancelled after the oncologist said sh...
...ductal carcinoma following a routine mammogram, ultrasound and then core needle biopsy. I got a great surgeon who said that everything looked the best it could, Grade 1, only 1 cm in size, negat...
...say the differences emerged because of less aggressive surgical techniques in Europe. In the Danish study, surgeons removed an average of 7 lymph nodes; in the United States, they removed an average o...
...ocytic leukemia. This leads to category of drugs that interfere with cell processes. 1949 Swedish Neurosurgeon Lars Leksell invents a sterotactic apparatus exclusively for human functional neurosu...
...t. He said no--if there was he would have to write it up. He then went on to tell me I needed to call my surgeon. I asked why. He made some comment about having a recurrence in my chest wall and t...
...ique. "This implant needs to be removed in order to allow for resolution of the . . . infection," plastic surgeon Andrew G. Goldberg wrote in a memo before operating on Kephart. In a follow-up, Goldb...
...e breast cancer which involved pain in that area of my chest but forgot to mention it to my oncologist and surgeon when I had seen them. Anyway, they were still there the following morning when I awok...
i have fluid surrounding both lungs, but worse on the right lung. I have an appointment to visit with a surgeon about a pleurodesis procedure, draining the fluid. The oncologist's office set up the
...ot the results of my core biopsy and I have Ductal Carcinoma In Situ. I'm at stage 0. I will be seeing the surgeon on Thursday and have been told by the radiologist that I'll have a lumpectomy and sev...
Anyone else have this? My surgery was 3 weeks ago and I'm having alot of pain in my arm. The surgeon said it was from nerve damage and no pain killer would help. Please let me know if you know of anyt
...t breast, because I had been seeing some bloody nipple discharge from my left breast. Both the specialist/surgeon and I were both expecting the cause to be an intraductal papilloma. In fact, the pat...
...ng some bleeding from my left nipple it was determined that the 'culprit' was a ductal papilloma. So, the surgeon has told me not to worry, it isn't cancerous, per se. The specialist I was referred ...
...er the condition that I leave the hospital with another breast. So I'm getting booked now to see a plastic surgeon and they should be able to coordinate the two fairly soon. What is the best kind of ...
I had a mammogram last month that showed a lump the size of an M&M...so my gyno referred me to a surgeon that set me up to take out the lump and check for cancer...the results came back last week that
...inally decided I'd better get myself to the doctor. On Oct. 5th, 2000, at about 2:05 in the afternoon, a surgeon looked me in the eye and said, "You have breast cancer." I was stunned. I'd had mam...
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
...d a second in 1996. In 2002, I found a lump under my arm which proved to be a NEW brest cancer due to the surgeon failing to remove enough breast tissue during the 1996 mastectomy. This cancer was h...
...eeks apart. AC made her very sick and she has lost nearly all her hair. Last week she had a mastectomy. Surgeon said he didn't see anything unusual. The pathology report came back and said that th...
...s away. She was dx'd by her internist. I believe a radiologist did the biopsy. She has not yet seen the surgeon. He comes to the area once/week (or once/month?) from a major cancer center (City of...
... and Friday and then told me to come in today for a blood test. I also had a return appt. with the plastic surgeon. She had told me she wanted me there every 6 weeks until I had reconstruction (which ...
...could be doing a better job of referring breast cancer patients facing mastectomy or lumpectomy to plastic surgeons to discuss reconstruction at the time of their diagnosis....
...out the lymphedema, but as with all other medical personnel right up to that point (including the original surgeon who did the mastecomy 13 years ago and the oncologist) he just seemed to not even hea...
...who have both breasts removed to avoid the possibility of getting breast cancer -- are on the rise, a U.S. surgeon says. Valerie Gorman, a breast surgeon on the staff at Baylor Medical Center in W...
... in one breast. One site showed slight vascular and lymphatic invasion. Each site was also multifocal. The surgeon recommended radical mastectomy with removal of primary lymph nodes. A logical AMA app...
... wife has. She saw it and got excited. We asked our regular Onc about it. He said we could contact the Onc surgeon, but it would not make my wife 'live any longer'...his words. She has BC mets to live...
...xin was the culprit in making the first three chemo sessions ineffective. I'm curious. We met her Breast Surgeon, who said Doris next Mammogram would not be until her yearly checkup which is next Ma...
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