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Hopefully she can still run and run fast to another doctor for advice, opinions and care. She needs both medical problems dealt with promptly and professionally. She could lose her breast to something besides cancer - something I have never heard of. That infection can spread - even to her bloodstream and kill her. And God only knows what the mass on the kidney is?
I would tell her that she needs a second opinion and if that opinion tells her to wait (and to explain why she has to wait) then she should - but I don't think anyone is going to wait on either of these problems and someone will act to bring her to good health.
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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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