surgery

Forum Post Is a port a cath put in during day surgery or what?
Is a port a cath put in during day surgery or what?
Forum Post 2nd surgery to get clear margins
My wife is having a second surgery next week after a lumpectomy reveal more dcis...what are the percentages that the surgeon gets "it" this time? We are well aware the mastectomy has to be t...
Forum Post Reconstruction after breast cancer surgery??
I am about tohave breast cancer surgery next week. I am considering having the reconstruction surgery done at the same time, but am told it will be a six hour operation. What do you advise?
Forum Post Metal Fragments after surgery???
Hello everyone, My name is Neil and I am a 47 yr old Male. I had an open shoulder surgery in Mar /06. I had and still have bad pain there. As it turns out I had a 2nd surgery in April/08 and the s...
Forum Post Staph infection /surgery - nasal carriers
I had to have breast surgery over a year ago they found a 4cm lump they took it out and it was cancerous. Well during the surgery I can down with a Staph infection and i still have it and that has bee...
Forum Post Surgery for BC mets to liver?
A few days ago, in the newspaper an ONC who specializes in surgery ran an ad. The ad said he does surgery for patients with mets to liver. That is what my wife has. She saw it and got excited. We aske...
Forum Post More surgery
Friday I had more surgery, but this was very minor. Oct 2000 I has a mastectomy and a TRAMflap reconstruction. Well, Friday, they did the first step in giving me a nipple. The plastic surgeon created ...
Forum Post Yeast Infection After Surgery
...on became less, but never completely cleared up. And now there's a major flare-up, starting from the surgery site, & going up the back of my shoulder. Yesterday, the nurse practitione...
Forum Post Ovarian Surgery???
...st cancer & positive lymph nodes. My doc strongly suggested for me to have my ovaries removed. Another surgery YUCH! Any suggestions?...
Forum Post The healing power of exercise ... woman post mastectomy faces more surgery because of implant
Posted on Thu, Sep. 04, 2003 EXCERPT: ... especially as she was facing another surgery related to her cancer. (It was a reconstruction to get rid of the silicone implant.) The healing power of ...
Forum Post Help Stop the Drive Thru Mastectomy
I was just coming out of the anesthesia after the surgery, and was half-asleep and groggy. I was in no real condition to fight for my situation. I know better, now. In the future, I will have it clear...
Forum Post Question about Radiation with Chemo
<< Can you tell me how long after surgery I might have to wait before starting chemo and radiation, if they're necessary. It depends on where you were treated. I started chemo 4 weeks a...
Forum Post what is the cause of pain after lymph removal in breast canc
Could it be from swelling in the area ? I read that many times that there is edema from the surgery itself. They told me when I have surgery and they remove the nodes that I will have to avoid activ...
Forum Post Removal of lump
This is day surgery, unless there is more that needs to be done. When I have surgery to remove my whole right breast it was day surgery, But since I live alone they kept me over night. My 4 surgeries ...
Forum Post after having your lymph nodes removed how much can you lift?...
Thank you for the question. The answer varies depending on who you listen to. After my surgery and treatments, I was told not to lift over 5 pounds with the arm in question to help prevent lymphedema....
Forum Post best options for breast cancer treatment?
...e there is no statistical evidence of this. I think the reason is that once the cancer has been identified surgery follows in pretty short order, and any cells that were displaced by the needle will a...
Forum Post Invasive Ductal Carcinoma
...e most to give you clear margins - the surgeon isn't going to know how good or bad it is until during surgery. I would rather have 1 extensive surgery, than to have to have a 2nd or 3rd surg...
Forum Post calcifications on mammogram
Also the Dr did not do surgery right alway on my other breast, I went and got a second opinion, The other Dr did the surgery and found out it was stage 1 there and so I was very happy I did that. I ho...
Forum Post nodule/lung mets ?
Thanks for your response. My wife had 3 cycles of CAF before surgery, followed by lumpectomy, radiation, then CMF. Our surgeon had used chemo before surgery for larger tumors and felt that it ...
Forum Post when to re start chemo
My brother has stage 4 tongue cancer. Had a perforated ulcer with surgery yesterday. He was planning on having chemo today but obviously couldn't make it. How soon after surgery can he restart ...
Forum Post infiltrating ductal carcinoma
...That's how it worked for me, in Hawaii at least. It was SOP to have the surgeon and PCP involved pre-surgery, and the oncologist not come in until after the surgery. Until all the characteristi...
Forum Post Shoulder pain
...has been having almost continuous shoulder pain since then. All this while I assumed it was because of the surgery, but now since it has been a year since the surgery, and she is still having pain,I a...
Forum Post Does an excision biopsy leave a scar?
...ant. Yes there have been a few cases but very very rare. You will have a scar there is no way they can do surgery without a scar it is a fact of life. You can have a plastic surgeon make the initial...
Forum Post I have nerve damage due to cutting the lymph nodes during my...
I had the lymphnode removal, too. I am numb under my arm. But my surgery was almost 2 years ago. You might be still healing. Deep, internal surgery can sometimes take a long time to heal. Even if the...
Forum Post question about timing start of chemo vs. vacation plans
...ference." Sheesh, thanks! Well...since the docs didn`t seem to think a six week wait between dx and surgery would matter (to schedule two surgeons for 12-hour surgery), guess two more weeks no...
Forum Post Want to learn more
Hello, My friend has breast cancer. She had a lumpectomy at the end of June. The MRI report just before surgery noted a 'mass-lesion' of about 2.5 mm and a "separate" node of ab...
Forum Post I have a knot in my breast i have had it now for 4 years, an...
...myself. I treated myself by buying a few books that I had been wanting to read. I figured that if I needed surgery, I would have them to pass the time while recovering, and they gave me something to l...
Forum Post is pain in my a breast can warn for cancer?
...ound [breast surgeon/conclusive] There it was...only 1cm. But there was definitely pain there. Had biopsy, surgery, radiation,chemptherapy. 1 year past treatments, coming up on 2 years away from surge...
Forum Post PBM on 4/14 w/expanders and Lymphnode removal and still in pain
I am almost 4 weeks out from surgery and still have alot of pain in my chest as well as in my my inside upper arms. I had skin / nipple sparing with expanders and 200cc's at the initial surgery. ...
Forum Post I had removal of a breast duct 3 weeks ago for papilloma. Fo...
JPA, Welcome to this site. When you have a surgery, usually the outside heals quicker than the inside. The inside often takes a long while because of swelling, and the amount of different layers and s...
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