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Drug or Chemo Therapy | arimidex
Stopped taking Arimidex after two years due to great hair loss.
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Procedure or Surgery | Chemoimmunotherapy
The side effects of the chemo treatment begin after 2 days. 6 days after the chemo, the side effects of the treatment are less noticeable/more tolerable.
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Procedure or Surgery | Fluid removed from lung
Having fluid drained was an easy (non-intrusive, 1 hour) outpatient procedure. After 1 day of "internal readjustment," I noticed immediate improvement in breathing, comfort, and stamina.
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Procedure or Surgery | Implant chemotherapy port
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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Procedure or Surgery | Sentinel lymph node biopsy
Taking out 2 nodes was so much more painful than the lumpectomy. Side effect a nerve trigger point was impacted. Still at 3 weeks later I have severe nerve pain in my arm and shoulder. Devastating unresolvable pain.
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Procedure or Surgery | Lumpectomy
Not as bad as I had built up in my head.
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Oh No | Health insurance issue
Medicare doesn't want to cover me getting treatment at my place of choice. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
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Decision Point | Where to seek treatment.
I'm very lucky to live in Seattle and be close to great sources for care.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
Aug 2019 Felt a hard pea size lump in breast. Thought period related. October 2019 lump is marble size. Nov 2019 lump is walnut sized diagnosed with invasive TNBC.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
RCHOP - in hospital 2 times because of chemo
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Radiation | External radiation
Malignant melanoma found and taken care of when being seen by plastic surgeon
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
Lumpectomy-no palpable lump
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
now we have breast cancer 2013
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Radiation | External radiation
external and internal
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
Divinci method..went home same day
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Celebration | Anniversary
Today marks the 7 years since my surgery for stage II grade 3 Uterine Sarcoma. The prognosis after surgery was that it would return within 18 months. It has not returned big celebration today
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Radiation | External radiation
To me it was just a pest honestly daily basis 30 days I had no side effects tight skin that's all
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Procedure or Surgery | Mastectomy
I got a spinal block too help heal and pain down if course drain bag and it was just a pest and I recovered great no affect hardly just my arm move move ment was limited and tight from river lymph nodes scaring was just a straight line in the middle recovering from surgery wasn't not bad it was just scared about the…
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Side Effects | Chemo brain
Well in the first wk severe bone pain, every time 3days after treatment , fatigue and hot flashes, memory loss baldness more no taste of food smells made me sick nueorpathy feet and hands weight gain and short of breath pain every where low blood pressure high sugar and foods I loved made me sick meat could not do terribly…
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Oh No | Many issues
Cancer cost me my life, kids,my license,my van could not work out of money for plates insurance no support nothing all alone I am blessed cancer free
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Decision Point | Decided to leave family alone. Completely alone.
No support from family and friends
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Procedure or Surgery | Lobectomy
The operation was a bust so dr couldn’t do anything but close me up I was heartbroken and Mad as hell!
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There really wasn’t an oh no moment it was mo...
There really wasn’t an oh no moment it was more like dang already I’m only 50 I always knew that this would get me many years in therapy and look back and she can remind me first time I met her I told her that this is what I will die from.
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Procedure or Surgery | Feeding tube
was messy but saved his life. was removed several months later once he was able to eat again.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | immunotherapy / keytruda
was stable on keytruda for 2 years until cancer became active again. will start chemo again.
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Procedure or Surgery | Cryotherapy
my husband has had many sessions of cryotherapy and it has helped but was also hospitalized twice for blood loss / throwing up blood.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | keytruda / immunotherapy
nausea and fatigue
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Procedure or Surgery | Colon surgery (colectomy or hemicolectomy)
Surgery September 2019, two thirds of transverse/descending bowel removed with 23 lymph nodes, clear margins, no cancer detected therefore no chemo
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Radiation | External radiation
fatigue, nausea, constipation and diarrhea. My husband has had radiation twice, the first time on liver and was easier on him than the recent treatment of three weeks to main tumor at the junction of esophagus / stomach. lots of weight loss, not wanting to eat, upset stomach.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
nausea, neuropathy, multiple hours to administer the meds.
