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Loretta Brown

posted 01/06/2009, comments (0)

Loretta Brown

I would like to I hear from other people that are going thru the same treatments that I have gone thru and still doing. I took TAC first, lost all of my hair but hey hair is just a material thing it grows back. Now I am doing CMF and when I finish that I will do 6 weeks of radiation. Good luck to everyone who reads this even if you do not wish to... Read more Chevron

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Dora

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I'm a Mother, Grandmother, Wife, Friend and HR professional.

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posted 01/05/2009, comments (0)

Breast Cancer Sucks!

I'm angry and frustrated. I was diagnosed in November 2008 with ductal breast cancer. We thought I would just have the partial mastectomy, be off 4 weeks and then go back to work. Surprise!! Breast cancer is running my life. I'm waiting for doctors, scheduling a double mastectomy and trying to keep myself positive. I miss working every day. I'm a... Read more Chevron

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Angi

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Hi all, I'm here working with HC/MBCN to help answer all you BC q

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posted 01/05/2009, comments (0)

Book Giveaway

Wanna win a book? Well Clergygirl (Jennifer) will be having a book giveaway on January 22. She will be giving away a copy of Chad Moutray's book, My Life with Laura: A Love Story. Everyone who posts a comment on her site (or posting one on the site that she cross-posts on, Mothers with Cancer) will be entered in a drawing to... Read more Chevron

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posted 01/04/2009, comments (5)

Breast Reconstruction: You Deserve A Choice

Seven years ago, after I learned the lumpectomy I’d gone through hadn’t gotten rid the cancer in my right breast, I was told a mastectomy was necessary. At the same time, my surgeon, Kim Grafton, recommended I speak with the plastic surgery team at our cancer center about a TRAM flap breast reconstruction. With totally inappropriate... Read more Chevron

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bruce2666

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My wife Dianne diagnosed with lobular breast cancer.

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posted 01/03/2009, comments (4)

TAC VERSUS TC CHEMOTHERAPY?

TAC VERSUS TC CHEMOTHERAPY? My wife had a lumpectomy on Nov 21 to remove a tumor on her left breast [1.7cm] which was lobular carcinoma and the breast surgeon received clear margins around the tumor. However, the pathology report showed 1 of 3 sentinel nodes were positive and on Dec 8 I had an axillary dissection examined 10 nodes which are... Read more Chevron

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