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I work in a doctor's office and last year during chemo many of my patients would comment on my wig. One gentleman who had lost his wife to colon cancer asked me what kind of cancer I had. When I replied breast cancer, he asked if I had surgery, which I replied yes I had a mastectomy. He then proceeded to ask which breast had been removed. I was so floored that I just replied if he couldn,t tell then it was none of his business. Alot of patients also not knowing I had cancer told me my new hairstyle looked better than the way I had been wearing my hair. My wig was chin length and a shade of light brown, my natural hair before chemo was gray and short. Go figure.
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Debbie in North Carolina
Diag 10/2006-high grade invasive ductal carcinoma- mastectomy L breast
2.5 cm tumor ER/PR pos-Her2+++
4 rounds A/C, 4 rounds Taxol
Herceptin every 3 weeks until Jan. 2008
6/18/07 prophylatic mastectomy R breast
8/2007 started aromasin/stopped arimidex (side effects)
12/07 stopped aromasin due to side effects (now what?)
Finished herceptin 1/8/08
started tamoxifen for 2 years then will switch to femera
allergic to tamoxifen started femera 4/2008
June 20, 2008 portacath removed
Learnig to live life to the fullest!
Stopped Femera due to side effects
July 28, 2008 start trial for breast cancer vaccine
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