I have a question.
What are the risk factor to my health having a bone scan ?
I hope this is not too much of an ' open question '.
I had a mastectomy nov 2002.Reconstruction nov 20006.

Fascinating article about extracting taxanes from the dirt that
Pacific Yew trees grow in.
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070424_soil_drugs.html
The bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer.

My wife has advanced BC (mets to liver and nodes). Has been on taxol
and Avastin for 4-5 months and has had it with side effects although
numbers stable ('down' from 159 to 153) and is debating whether to stop
treatment or to try something else. Onc recommended Xeloda (mentioned

Time for an update since it looks like there's a treatment change
about to happen for us  :)
Deborah took two weeks off chemo for our trip to Texas last month -
her markers are still low but they always have been.  Last test right

Hi...
Sorry, it might be the wrong NG according to the kind of cancer, but I need
to get ANY info that is helpful!
I am male, 60 years old, and was diagnosed renal pelvis cancer in my left

Does anyone have an oncologist in the Chicago area that they really
like and feel is competent, compassionate and reachable?  Please let
me know either through the newsgroup or to my email.
Thanks.

can't find a reference to this for anything but DCIS....seems that spread to
sentinel is fairly rare with that...but what about with IDC, if it is very
early (nuclear 1/3) and not aggressive (neg for p63)....wood it be more, or
less common for sentinel to be invaded? All I can ...

TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.
Last month's post recalled three landmark studies from the 1980's that
found the 1,25D hormone is made in the skin and inhibits both the
growth of melanoma and the growth of skin; this active form of vitamin

the Ps...it's not Permanent, it's not Personal, it's not Pervasive.
....but for most of the time, it sure feels so...

Is this just routine, or is it to look for cancer? I have localized, grade 1
IDC.

"Red Meat Linked To Breast Cancer", Science Daily, April 8, 2007,
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070407174018.htm
Eating red meat increases a woman's chance of developing breast
cancer, according to new research from the University of Leeds.

My sister's mother-in-law was recently dx'd with BC.  Her docs are talking
to her about participating in an Aromatase Inhibitor
clinical trial, a "randomized multi- center phase IIIb open label
study letrozole vx. anastrozole in adjuvant treatment of

I'm just back from seeing the medical oncologist and being fondled. That
clinic visit alternates with the surgeon's, the mammogram comes somewhere
between so I see the team three times a year.
This morning lovely Dr Kumar said that she'll see me in a year's time and

In another thread Ann said:
"I have a friend who just had reconstruction . . . 20 years after her
original mastectomy!"
Can you tell us more about that, Ann? Why and results?

good stories here? bad?