I have been bothered for a while about the site of my surgery, there has
been a hard lump under the skin and my GP was concerned enough to tell me to
mention it to the hospital when I went for my chemo..which I did and the Dr.
rang straight away, while I waited and got me an appt ...

I was diagnoised feb 2004 at stage 2 with one positive lymph node. I went
through chemo. Barely a year passed, they found it in my bone. I have two
questions:
1. What are the other treatment options? Right now, the doctor continues to

Does anyone have any more info on green tea and it's cancer fighting
effects?  There was a vague story on the newswire this morning describing a
European study, but it didn't indicate which cancers it was helpful
fighting.

I'm a journalism student, and I'm doing research on women who have used
tamoxifen to treat breast cancer, but who found their cancer later spread
as a result.
If anyone is interested in sharing their stories with me, please email me

Thank you for your relpy. I had talked with a Dr. @ the hospital
yesterday . The solid growth or complex cyst ( Dr. is unsure) is
located up against a sympol cyst. I was told that w/in the 7 mos. +
since my last mammogram and ultrasound that the complex cyst had grown

I posted a while back - don't remember how long ago (I'll talk about
that later).
Anyhow, just wanted to update you guys that I've seen my medical
oncologist who didn't have much to say except that he considered

It seems about time we did one of these get-to-know-each-other thingies.
 There are a lot of new people since the last one in October.  So maybe
you will post some information about yourselves in reply to this post.
For those who don't know me, I'm Tim Jackson, an engineer of 53 ...

The taxanes (e.g., Taxotere) are known to produce some peripheral
neuropathy. Check out
http://www.prostate-help.org/caperneu.htm.
for one person's research into this problem and possible ways to

Hi Mary I would love to meet others in Yorkshire living in Hull I don't
get no support I have had to find it myself. I also run my own support
group for Breast cancer on the net to get me through this journey. I
have met many but not from my area and it would be great to meet

well, I went  for my first chemo treatment yesterday, in Hull... Got there
at 9;15 am... 30 minutes early, no traffic hold-ups.  got blood done and saw
dr.  then we waited and waited and waited.. people came in after me and went
for their treatment..and we waited,   ladies got their ...

How can secondary smoke cause breast cancer when smoking itself doesn't?  Or
are we sure that smoking doesn't?
Eva

I received 2 Herceptin treatments, out of a planned 17, but now my doctor
has decided to stop them because my most recent echocardiogram shows a
significant decrease in "ejection fraction" (an indicator of how well the
heart is pumping, she said) since the last one I had in November ...

This came "through" a friend of mine.  He is not the author but passed it
along.  It's news to me!  I plan to do some research but thought it might be
of interest to the NG.
A friend of mine who has received Chemotherapy and is now receiving

  just reading through the posts...  You seem to know a lot about the
subject of this group...  Do you have a loved one with bc?   Wondering why
some-one would take the time to find out so much about a subject that, until
it affects them, most people know very little about.  ...