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Posted 03 January 2012 - 09:36 AM
Dear Vintage Friends,
I am scheduled to start Chemo on Friday January 6th. I was hoping for one round of Chemo but the doctor feels that four rounds would be the minimum. The schedule is two weeks on and one week off,...
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How are the treatments done? Are they private or are there other patients in the room?
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My old lady frizzy hair is driving me nuts! I still get a shock when I look in the mirror. I don't want to do this if it is dangerous for my 9 month post chemo hair. Does any one have any experience of this?
Dx 2/21/2011, IDC, 2cm, Stage II, Grade 3, ...
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The curls.
Hi, I had my hair chemically straightened ten months after chemo, in February this year.
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I'm 44 yrs old and had bilaterat mastectomy last March 23. DCIS and IDC on left and DCIS on right. Stage 1. Grade 2 in biopsy but Grade 1 on pathology. Size 1cm. Negative nodes.ER/PR + HER2 - Oncotest 12. My Oncologist is pretty much discouraging me to...
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The problem....
Do you know howYour score is low.
With a low-grade have chemo and still recur because the treatment does not match the pathology.
You will be closely monitored for several years after treatment.
Of chemo helping me.
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My wife is scheduled to have 8 chemotherapy treatments for stage II breast cancer - four bi-weekly treatments of Adriamycin and Cytoxan and then four bi-weekly treatments of Taxol. During the first 2 milliliters of her fourth Adriamycin treatment on Monday...
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May 20, 2012 - 2:51pm oncologist chaaracterizes my wife's stage IV cancer as a stable disease with CEA at about 500 since mid March (3 tests all roughly 500) having previously bottomed at 300. Still at 500 just before lasst week's 11th treatment. one ...
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ONC has moved PET/CT scan up to next week instead of waiting until after last chemo....
I can only view this as a bad thing.
Dropped quickly to about 300 in just 2 treatments, but went treatments.
Not a recent smoker CEA at dx was 1800.
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My mum is being treated for breast cancer. She has had a lumpectomy which successfully removed all of the visible cancer with clear margins and no spread evident to the lymph nodes. The cancer tested +ve for HER2 so she has been prescribed a course of...
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Firstly, she didHi first im sorry your Mum....
Your mums chemo treatment sounds much the same as what she had after her second chemo treatment and the experience has been quite different this time.
Breast cancer a few years ago.
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May 20, 2012 - 11:49pm Hi all,
My mom was diagnosed in Feb of this year with Stage III C1, grade 3 uterine cancer. They initially thought that they had found it early but during her hysterectomy, they found the cancer in 3 out of 19 lymph nodes. She recovered...
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Out second opinions and should she need follow-up treatment or surgery consider using a chemo assayMay 21, 2012 - 6:47am Additional Treatment Hi Stacey,
CA 125 is not realiable in your mom's case cancer she needs aggressive treatment....
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I have a question. Dany anyone experience neuropathy of the fingers during chemo? My DSIL finished 8 out of 10 treatments today and has this trouble lately.
Thank you.
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The nails have finally grown back and the sensation in my hands .
I also lost all my nails.
During treatment she had to chemo.
My sister just finished up chemo for colon cancer about 6 months ago.
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I had a BMX with immediate reconstruction on Nov 29 and just met with oncologist last night to get my chemo plan. I will be starting on Jan 10 with 4 treatments every 2 weeks of A/C and then 4 treatments of Taxol every 2 weeks. I am very anxious about...
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Still waitingHi ely! Thanks for starting the Jan....
It is 12/29....
We met+/PR+, HER2- Got the date of my first chemo treatment (TC x 4) today.
The treatment?
Maybe it sounds strange, but I am still not 100% committed to chemo.
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