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My gyne gave me a DEXA scan 2 days after my oophorectomy. I was just a bit off on the spine reading but great in the hip and neck. My gyne conferred with my onc and they put me on every 6 month Zometa treatments (the IV biophosphanate). I just got the order to do another DEXA (it will be almost 2 yrs since the last one) and that one will determine if I continue every 6 months or move to once a year.
You need something if you are osteopenic (as I was becoming) so you do not get osteoporesis.
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Kind regards
Becky
Found lump via BSE
Diagnosed 8/04 at age 45
1.9cm tumor, ER+PR-, Her2 3+(rt side)
2 micromets to sentinel node
Stage 2A
left 3mm DCIS - low grade ER+PR+Her2 neg
lumpectomies 9/7/04
4DD AC followed by 4 DD taxol
Used Leukine instead of Neulasta
35 rads on right side only
4/05 started Tamoxifen
Started Herceptin 4 months after last Taxol due to
trial results and 2005 ASCO meeting & recommendations
Oophorectomy 8/05
Started Arimidex 9/05
Finished Herceptin (16 months) 9/06
Arimidex Only
Prolia every 6 months for osteopenia
NED 18 years!
Said Christopher Robin to Pooh: "You must remember this: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think"
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