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The clinic (a well known clinic) that I was going to first told me that it was common for them not to be able to draw blood from a port, that it happened all the time. So they ignored it and a week later after chemo I had pain in the area around it all night. After an ultrasound and chest x-ray where they said they found nothing, the ultrasound technician told me that the nurse practitioner said the radiologist wanted another test but then she told me there was nothing wrong and basically to leave her alone. Later that week, they called me with an appointmnet to have it replaced. This one works much better and has never bothered me like the first one did. Maybe I sqeaked enough to get their attention. Good luck.
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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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