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Old 11-21-2007, 08:07 AM   #1
RhondaH
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Exclamation The secret history on the war on cancer

Thought provoking:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarti...7&ItemID=14339

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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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Old 11-21-2007, 07:37 PM   #2
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"Most physicians don't know that a typical CT scan equals 400 chest X-rays."

Is this true?
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Diag. Oct. 2004 age 54 left breast
Stage 1 grade 3; 6mm IDC; unknown amount of DCIS
with comedo necrosis; node neg.
Nottingham Grade 7/9
ER 91% PR 62%; Her2 3.6 by ICH; KI-67 35%

Nov 2004 Lumpectomy; SNB failed so had
full axillary clearance;
Dec 2004 2nd lumpy for clean DCIS margins.

Jan/Feb 2005 4 A/C dose dense;
33 rads finished 6/2005;
Began 5 years Arimidex in 6/2005
No Herceptin
9/2007 Quit Arimidex due to severe side effects.
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Old 11-22-2007, 05:14 AM   #3
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Liked the bit about health of medical people

We often forget that the really toxic treatments are risky for our oncology nurses, not just us.

I know that CT scans have a really high level of radiation in them and are not to be undertaken without a really good reason, but 400 seems very high.
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