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Re: Dr. Love on "NEW" Mammogram guidelines
In some of the materials I received from Mayo when I was first diagnosed, I learned that 85% of women diagnosed with breast cancer HAVE NO FAMILY HISTORY that would put them in the "high risk" group. I have NO history and lots of aunts and girl cousins and I am the first! This statistic is not well known. I have been trying to spread the word for ALL women to do self breast exams and yearly mammograms. If you don't have family history, since this is so highly stressed, it is very easy to feel that you are safe when the reality is the opposite.
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Diagnosed: 7/25/08 ~ age 63, no family history
Surgery: 8/14/08 Bilateral mastectomy; tumor left breast, node dissection; right prophylactic with expanders: 1/12/10 latisimuss dorsi flap on left side: 9/22/10 implants in
Pathology Report: ER/PR-; HER2+ (3+); Grade 3, StageIII; 3cm tumor plus 21/21 lymph nodes positive; 5cm DCIS
Chemo: A/C; Taxol/Herceptin/Tykerb; phase II study at Mayo adding Tykerb for early stage
Radiation: 25 rads
Vaccine: Walter Reed GP2/AE37 vaccine study ~ last booster 9/17/2012
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