Today, my best friend underwent a total mastectomy with (expander
type) reconstructive surgery combined.  She had 1 of 3 sentinel lymph
nodes with 1 cm lesion, other 2 appeared clear.  They removed another
14 or so for full laboratory pathology (won't hear until Friday).

... and here we usually take the opportunity to have a roll call of present,
past and lurking members.
Who's going to kick off?
Mary

I have recently been diagnosed with IDC. My presurgery MRI showed a
satellite nodule. My surgeon said if this nodule is also malignant I will
have no choice but to have a mastectomy instead of a lumpectomy.
Has anyone ever had a satellite tumor that turned out to be benign? I am ...

http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/ crossposted to
sci.med.diseases.cancer
New Research Results Explain How Dormant Tumor Cells Become Active in
Later Years

Although there are plenty of worse things that can happen to a healthy
male or female, losing your hair can be pretty disastrous and
extremely confidence shattering.
Hair loss is a universal condition, affecting all ages, races, genders

Hi to all. I have a question for this wonderful group: A friend of
mine went thru a total Hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer. After that
she was told to take something called GENETIC TEST which came out
positive. According to that test her oncologist say that she has an

My oncologist and I talked about this today. Is anyone taking it? He said I
could switch if I want to. He told me to take a month off ALL med (whoa) and
then decide. I know Evista is SLIGHTLY less effective at reducing risk of
recurrence than are Tamoxifen and Letrozole....but it ...

I drink it every day, have for years, for the lycopene (antioxidant!) and
Vit C, and now comes this study saying it can "cause" BC and that if you've
already had BC (E+) and are taking AI, you shouldn't go near a grapefruit.
so ironic, here I thought I was saving myself. same ...

Since I started taking Femara this is my worst problem. Nothing helps,
and worst is that I'm a singer and I can't sing.
Some days I get by with hours of no pain; other days.....when I first
started the med it was always worst in the morning (I wondered if I was

I was told today that if a mother gets estrogen positive breast cancer
in her 60's that her female children do not have to be concerned about
getting it due to the age the parent got it. It seems it can only be a
possibility for her daughters if the mother got it earlier in life.