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SABC: How to Pack a Room
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December 12, 2008...3:54 am
SABC: How to Pack a Room
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 Photo by K. Wachter
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, TX
I’ve never attended a meeting in a room that could seat thousands that actually was seating thousands. I fought to find a seat at this morning’s session at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. By my back-of-an-envelope calculations, there were easily 5,000 people seated in the room. That doesn’t count the people milling around to find a lone seat, the people who decided just to stand, or those who decided to camp out on the floor. The turn-out this morning is part tribute to the success of this internationally attended symposium and part tribute to the research devoted to improving survival and quality of life for those stricken with breast cancer.
As a reporter, this kind of turnout is immensely rewarding and seriously frustrating. It is very satisfying to attend a meeting that physicians, health care professionals, and patients/survivors regard so highly. It’s intensely frustrating trying to balance a notebook, camera, and digital recorder on your lap, while trying to use all three almost simultaneously.
— Kerri Wachter
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Alice
04/08 age 50 III IBC Her2+++ ER/PR-8cm 14/14 Double M, Body and Brain CT/PET clear, ? on spine,Muga 53
06/08, 4 A/C, Neulasta
08/08, Herceptin/tax 12 every week
10/08, CT/PET clear, ? on pelvis, hips, MUGA 43, started Enalaprial for heart, Herceptin every 3 weeks
11/08 33Rads; 12/08 MUGA 48
2/09 MRI spine and bone scan, old mets to spine, Chest x-ray, blood work, IV NED,regular CPAP use,Zometa x6, first -flue like symptoms 2 days;Herceptin x3; stage 2 lymphoedema..sleeve and glove
4/09 Brain MRI - CLEAR; MUGA 54
7/09 chest ultrasound,
10/09 PET, brain and spin MRI NED Herceptin only. MUGA 59!!!
1/11 Hip replacement 7/11 Hip 2 replacement
4/12 4 years!! Herceptin
6/12 start reconstruction finish in 12/12
2/14 Herception - 6 years!!!
1 Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you
can stand up under it."
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