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Re: rewrite breast cancer awareness message the way YOU want it to read
I am already a little tired of Pink (not you, Pink). The commercialization of Breast Cancer. It has started to seem a little celebratory. Sort of like the expressions of ectasy the weather people get when there is a major hurricane and they finally have something to talk about. I don't know how much money is raised through this Pink campaign and I don't know where it goes. I am sure it helps. Sometimes though, it just seems like Buy, Buy, Buy.
Amy, you made a good point. All the research in the world doesn't help when many people are struggling just to get basic healthcare.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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