Breast cancer

Share your personal experience with breast cancer. Discuss your treatments, share information you've learned along the way, and discuss strategies for screening and prevention.

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LaGata
  • By LaGata · New reply October 10, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Actually, this probably should go to all sites. I just saw a "crawler", the script that goes across the bottom of the screen, on CNN that says the Journal of Human Reproduction has announced that "even ...

I'm lonesome and down

AGray
  • By AGray · New reply September 5, 2008
  • 22 replies
  • I'm new to this site and haven't seen any of the discussions. But I just need to talk and let some things out. I am 56 years old and I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September of 2007. My maternal ...

Family history and early screening

Lucyfairfield
  • By Lucyfairfield · New reply June 29, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • I have a strong family history of breast cancer that includes grandmothers and aunts on both my mother�s and father�s sides who were diagnosed and died as a result of the disease. I believe all but one ...

Breast Cancer at 41?

Anna7
  • By Anna7 · New reply June 24, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • I just found out that a friend of mine (age 41) has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I don't know what stage it is, but she will be getting chemotherapy. I want to get in touch with her (she lives in ...

Oncotype Test

Charlene
  • By Charlene · New reply December 9, 2007
  • 2 replies
  • I recently learned about a new test that can help determine if women with early stage breast cancer need to receive chemotherapy. The test is called oncotype; has anyone used this test ...

Taxol

Charlene
  • By Charlene · New reply October 30, 2007
  • 3 replies
  • i just heard that the chemotherapy drug taxol may not work in breast cancer; has anyone else heard of this ...

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