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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.
EARLY Act
- By GregDennis · New reply November 20, 2009
- 9 replies
- The EARLY Act would provide federal funding to educate doctors and young women (those 45 and under) about breast health and breast cancer. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, herself ...
sentinel node procedure
- By MsBones · Posted October 18, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi everyone! Just diagnosed with breast cancer for second time....9 years ago and now. But, different breast. Does anyone out there know about the new sentinel node procedure. According to what I have ...
Has anyone used Dr. Bauman in Houston for reconstruction after a mastectomy
- By Pam-Pam · New reply October 11, 2009
- 1 reply
- I have talked with two plastic surgeons. One suggested a saline implant by itself after mastectomy. The other suggested implant plus latissimus flap from my back. I want to see pictures of both so I can ...
Trying to find some positive in Triple Negative
- By Dolphinlady · Posted July 3, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello fellow wrestlers ... this is my first post ;"first time caller, long-time listener." By nature I have a tendency to hang out in the background and avoid the spotlight (well, unless I've had a few ...
Clothing to hide Chest Port
- By phoenixx · New reply May 29, 2009
- 5 replies
- My beautiful wife is having a chest port put in next week and she is a yoga instructor. I wanted to know if there was specific clothing made to hide the port or what others have done to hide it from view ...
Tomorrow is worth more than yesterday but less than today.
- By cmoore0362 · Posted May 16, 2009
- 0 replies
- People don't realize the value of life until it is gone ...
New Patient
- By early · Posted April 24, 2009
- 0 replies
- I have just be told I have breast cancer. How do cope. And where to you begin your research. There is so much info out there, where do you start ...
Oncotype Test
- By Charlene · New reply February 27, 2009
- 4 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 ...
SOY!!!
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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 ...
Taxol
- 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 ...
