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Celebration | Remission
im now two years remission.
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Procedure or Surgery | Surgery
Replaced jaw bone with leg bone. Took out lymph nodes. Feeding tube and trach.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
April 2017 in right jaw bone.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
currently doing chemo/immunotherapy
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Oh No | Cancer is back/Recurred
July 2021 biopsy shows three places in lining of mouth with cancer.
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Radiation | External radiation
30 treatments of radiation.
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What We Say
Since I am on this kick to be an encourager right now, I was reading an answer I had posted on a thread to JustGrateful way back in May 2020. I guess I was still in kick butt mode, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. I meant my post to be encouraging and empowering. Now that I look back on what I wrote, it sounds…
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Radium 223. Has anyone been on this. What are we to expect
Radium 223. Has anyone been on this. What are we to expect
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I am 8 years out from invasive ducal ER/PR positive breast cancer. I just found out St. John’s Wort contains phytoestrogens. Should I be taking SJW?
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I am 8 years out from invasive ducal ER/PR positive breast cancer. I just found out St. John’s Wort contains phytoestrogens. Should I be taking SJW?
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Encore
I don't have the "street cred" that a lot of you have. I haven't gone through chemotherapy. I didn't even have to have radiation, thanks to a great surgeon who acted quickly to remove the cancerous tissue she found in my breast. I often feel unworthy to post anything or share my experience because my road was not full of…
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August 2021 Book Club Question
Hi! What are you reading now and/or what books do you recommend?
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post vaccine Covid
For those of you who think the vaccine is a magic bullet - it is not. My husband and I were fully vaccinated and both of us got it. To be fair - we were exposed to it for quite a while from family members who were staying with us, but still - there it is. We had light cases. I only had a slight fever for about 4 days, some…
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Greg's Kindle Book
Has anyone read Greg's detailed Kindle book? I wonder if it should be published as a hard copy.
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What are we reading?
When I was diagnosed, friends gave me *cancer advice/experience* books to read while having my infusions. Forget that - I wanted novels! I wanted all kinds of fiction from autobiographies, to Stephen King's epic thrillers. I am a reader. Many people who had already been done the treatment path told me I would not be able…
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Side Effects | Diarrhea
Carboplatin, Taxotere, Herceptin, and/or Perjeta I assume caused diarrhea
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Thankful Thursday
Hi, everyone. How about a Thankful Thursday? I had my annual mammogram last week and got a call back. I went back yesterday for more views and an ultrasound. The doctor believes the issue is just calcifications and wants me to come back in six months for a follow up. Well, I'm not ecstatic about that but I know the news…
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Side Effects | Random joint pain
This was mainly from the Neublasta on-pro that I received at each treatment. Day 2 after treatment to day 4 were the hardest. I would have random pain in joints, neck, back and extreme fatigue.
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Side Effects | Nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy)
Have it in my fingertips and toes that started after my 5th of six chemo treatments. I did do icing of my hands and feet, but I still have neuropathy. Additionally, my fingernails are all deteriorating and regrowing at the same time.
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Procedure or Surgery | Lumpectomy
My mass had about 90% cancer gone, so chemo was working. However, I was hoping the cancer was all gone. Also, cancer was found in 2 or 4 lymph nodes extracted. One was macro-metastasis and one was micro-metastasis. I did have a drain. My surgery was on July 30, 2021, and I am still recovering.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Targeted therapy
These are the monoclonal antibodies drugs - Herceptin and Perjeta since I am HER2 positive, ER, and PR positive.
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Drug or Chemo Therapy | Chemotherapy
Started 6 cycles of chemo, Carboplatin, and Taxotere, on March 19, 2021. Also, am having monoclonal antibodies treatment of Herceptin and Perjeta.
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Oh No | Just Diagnosed
Diagnosed Feb 16, 2021, with invasive ductal carcinoma. I have a mass and cancer found in a lymph node. I am HER2 positive, ER, and PR positive.
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Come As You Are
Good news and bad news? Let's hear it/see it. It seems our "leadership" doesn't care so let's be the strong people I know we are and lay it out there for congratulations and/or support. Good news is I have finally found some tops that I really like that don't seem to require constant adjustments to make those parts of me…
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Many still have. ...
Many still have.
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Radiation | External radiation
Had Esophagitis from the radiation. Took 3 to 4 months to recover.
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Calling All WhatNext'ers.
This site has come loose from its moorings again and seems to be floating away into oblivion. It is sad to me that we are always bound to enter a specific diagnosis to ask a question. I think there are a great many questions we all have and maybe they are about cancer in general. Maybe they are about COVID, or life, or…
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when to stop
how and when do u decide to stop treatments
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Hair Loss
11-1/2 yrs ago I went thru chemo for Ovarian Cancer. Carboplatin and Taxol were administered for 9 sessions. I knew that all my hair would fall out and that 2 months after treatment it would grow back. It did, thin and limp. My hair has always been coarse and full, no baldness on either side of my family. For the past two…
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Treatment and prognosis
Treatment and prognosis
