Thanks for the e-mail.  I have ordered a copy of the book by Dr. Love from
Amazon.com.  I found a used copy for $5.60.  I should get it in about a
week.
Best wishes, and belated Happy Birthday!

Just flew in from Seattle and boy, are my arms tired  :D
The return flight was the trip from hell.  My flight yesterday from
Seattle to Chicago was delayed for two hours because of wind in the
Windy City so I missed my connecting flight to Kalamazoo - which

I had a mastectomy Mar 24. The surgon didn't think it had spread but he
found a tiny bit by a node. Then last night while checking out a sore
place in my arm on that side I found a small sore lump about 2 inches
above my elbow on the inside of my arm. I go see the oncologist Mon.

I am sure that when I go to my appointment at some point someone will
ask if I want my breast either reconstructed or have an implant.  My
partial mastectomy left me looking almost normal from the front, but
with a large divot on the side; am I being vain by considering getting

Thanks, Mary, for recommending that I read the book by Dr. Susan Love.  I
found lots of valuable information in it, and I believe it will be a help in
making the decisions I will need to make after surgery.
I am scheduled for an echocardiogram and a Doppler exam on the 15th of this

It's coming close to the time of my surgery and slowly adapting to a new
program of cleansing my body, meditation, and new diet.  What I am doing is no
fly by night.  However, I no longer wish to be a part of this newsgroup at this
time.  All I am getting are warnings, people ...

Someone sent this to me the other day, from something called the "Moss
Reports".  This guy worked at Sloan-Kettering, and here, he writes about his
experience there.  
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Last week we had my CT scans re-read by a university radiologist who wrote a
research article several years ago re. how lobular breast cancer presents
differently than ductal breast cancer.  It was kind of a bittersweet
experience.  He was quite nice but did see an  area of ...

I need to know how to access this group from a pc. I'm learning how to
use hubby's pc. Operative word here is "learning"...So could someone
explain this in "english" how I access this news group from a pc.
I tried using "google" {tried a few different ways} and it didn't work.

Hi.  It's Judy again.  I need to start radiation therapy, but would
like to find a good oncologist and cancer center here in the metro
Detroit area.  Does anyone know of a good dr and center?  I have been
considering U of M, but it is kinda far, and I have 3 kids...Also,

Hi, guys -
I'm heading to the Pacific Northwest for my annual pilgrimage to the
Evil Empire.  I'll be back late Thursday evening and then turn around
the following Monday and fly out to our nation's capital for a week.

I had a partial mastectomy 2 weeks ago.  The pain was tolerable and
what I would expect at first; however, the last few days I have a new
pain that is way below the incision, near the bottom of my ribcage,
going around to my back.  It feels like someone punched me, but there

After going to the oncologist my wife was given the odds considering her
diagnosis.  She had her surgery (margins and lymph nodes clear) and the
oncologist recommended chemo, radiation and tamoxifen.  In that order.  It
seems everything you add increases the chance a survival by a  ...

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/8241309.htm
Posted on Mon, Mar. 22, 2004
ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS/SHERRI LAROSE VIA KRT <see photo of Nancy and the
casts>

My (47 year old) wife underwent lumpectomy for 1.5cm ductal invasive grade 2
tumor.  While doing surgery they removed a nearby suspicious cyst which
proved to be a small ductal in situ.  All margins were found to be clear and
both sentinal nodes and axillary dissection lymph nodes ...