My onc is VERY thorough...
AND one thing my former "Herceptin" partner and I talked about is that he closes his eyes when doing our breast exams. I never stopped to think about it until she mentioned it, but when you take away your sense of sight, your sense of touch becomes even MORE sensitive therefore you can feel more "imperfections". Incidentally, my mass wasn't found to the touch AND my surgeon had to find it by ultrasound and mark it prior to my surgery.
Rhonda
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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