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VERY SCAREY I had been a heavy long term user of diet products, beginning around the age of fifteen (dx'd at 37). I really was like a smoker as far as diet cokes go- I always had a "big gulp" of diet coke in my hand and drank several a day in addition to consuming other sugar free items. I have stopped this for the most part since diagnosis, but now don't even want to use Splenda, even though its supposed to be safe. I have been shocked at the number of very young women I know that have been diagnosed with breast cancer and generallly would say that diet items are used by many young women and have really only been around for the last 25 years or so. The rates of bc certainly have skyrocketed since then. Definitely something to take note of.
Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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