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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
Capecitabine to start for 6 minths to get risiduals
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Other Care | CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine)
Acupuncture for anxiety, nausea, facial neuralgia, fibromyalgia.
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Celebration | Finished treatment
No growth in the lesion. Limited side effects from the lesion.
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Side Effects | Depression/Anxiety
Controlled with Prozac 30 mg and .25 of clonazapam daily
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
Fatigue was bad
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Radiation | External radiation
Radiation was difficult with fatigue and nausea. Symptoms lasts for months after treatment was completed. 30 treatments in six weeks. Proton beam.
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
Surgery was to perform a laryngectomy, thyroid cancer was discovered during the laryngectomy.
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Clinical Trial | BeLLE Study-Lung Function after Radiation for Breast Cancer
study checks my bloodwork, get CT scans of lungs, and pulmonary function test of breathing for 2 years
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Oh No | Cancer is back/Recurred
My bestest friend's cancer is back, and is incurable this time. The doctor said it's likely she has a few months to a year. She is doing chemo to hold it at bay for as long as possible. I don't even know what else to say. I found this community to be helpful three years ago when she diagnosed and was able to fight it off.
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CT shows spread to bones, liver and possibly ...
CT shows spread to bones, liver and possibly pancreas.
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Procedure or Surgery | Laparascopic colon surgery
Surgery went great, out in 2 two days. Belly really sore and swollen and trying to get use to a stoma and taking care of it is the pits.
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Has anyone ever heard of directional dyslexia?
Has anyone ever heard of directional dyslexia?
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Milestones | Other
Just want to let others know there is life after cancer! My daughter is living a very full life raising her 3 children, working at a local hospital, and is involved in extreme hog hunting... Our family has been so very blessed. God and life is good!
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Celebration | Finished treatment
Rang the bell!!! Scans show completely clear
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Immunotherapy
Accepted fairly well, minimal side effects, 3 yrs worth...
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery to remove cancer that has spread
Removed 8 in long, 2 in wide, 2 in deep strip from front left thigh, removal of all left side lymph nodes, port insertion
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Other Care | ct scan
Coming up on my CT scan Feb 13th and colonoscopy on april 1st
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Radiation | External radiation
Had radiation dermatitis on breast and in arm pit, with radiation treatment. The skin was quite dry and irritated . Was difficult to keeping a dressing to area.
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Anyone dx with dementia after chemo or stem cell transplant?
Anyone dx with dementia after chemo or stem cell transplant?
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Oh No | Pain med issues, withdrawal, anxiety
Methadone was initially 5 mg 3 times daily and oxycodome for breakthrough. I stopped taking any methadone due to terrible anxiety
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Radiation | Internal radiation (Brachytherapy)
I had a horrific experience with interstitial Brachytherapy then developed UTI, a yeast infection that added to the discomfort after the completion of 4 high dose treatments. My pain was not controlled at various stages
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
I had a kidney nephrostomy for blocked ureter
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Decision Point | Second Opinion Time?
Based on how fast this trajectory is changing, should I get second opinion? I feel so stressed with everything else- the prospect of having to gather records and find a new doctor to give second opinion is just another stressor. But I have somewhat lost confidence. Just don't understand how things went so bad so fast.
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Loss | My mind/Sense of Humor
My surgeon's assistant has constantly complimented me about always having a smile on my face. Well, it was successfully knocked off and eliminated with the news about "way worse" and anticipated mastectomy. Don't know when my smile will come back, if ever.
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Oh No | Cancer has spread/Metastasized
Got radiology/pathology results back on Monday 1/27/2020. Doctor very discouraging/discouraged- seems absolutely stunned that invasive is now in picture. Told me again about larger margins- much larger- but no longer contained In Situ. It has become more invasive. Will schedule me for PET Scan/MRI. I am current waiting for…
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Procedure or Surgery | Lumpectomy
Surgery 1/22/2020. Knew lumpectomy for removal of calcifications- know there are two areas so know margins will be larger than initially planned. Apparently quite a bit larger margins than anticipated according to surgeon's post-op discussion (very minimal since I was under anesthesia).
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Procedure or Surgery | Savi Scout Transmitter implant.
Went in 1/20/2020 to have Savi Scout implant to track appropriate incision site. Waiting and waiting for radiologist and surgeon to discuss implanting site. Find out maybe place between "two areas." What? Two areas- this is news to me. Breast care nurses show me images and tell me "long way apart in surgical terms"-…
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
12/16/19 found out I definitely have DCIS. Plan is to do lumpectomy, then radiation (5x/week for 6 weeks)Then a course of Tamoxifen. All sounds pretty simple. Ready to go. Scheduled surgery for 1/22/2020. Will be done with Savi scout. Have to get Savi scout markers placed pre-surgery. Scheduled for 1/20/2020.
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Procedure or Surgery | Stereotactic Biopsy
Had stereotactic biopsy and had marker placed.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
Calcifications detected on mammogram. Had two more follow up mammos to verify. Got referral to surgeon who will schedule biopsy and get care team together (apparently that's the normal protocol here in this area). Got a referral to do a stereotactic biopsy on 12/10/19.
