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What I wouldn't give to have a T-score of -1.5
My T-Score in my spine is -3.8
My T-Score in my hip's is -3.4
So I know for a fact that Actonel isn't helping me.
What it means is that when your score goes lower the med's are working.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has established the following definitions based on bone density measurement at any skeletal site in white women.
Normal: T-score above -1 (BMD is within 1 SD of a "young normal" adult)
Osteopenia: T-score between -1 and -2.5 (BMD is between 1 and 2.5 SD below that of a "young normal" adult)
Osteoporosis: T-score at or below -2.5 (BMD is 2.5 SD or more below that of a "young normal" adult. Women in this group with one or more fractures are deemed to have severe or "established" osteoporosis.)
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Vicki
Texas
Biopsy Dx'd 3-23-05 Age 48
MRM 4-5-05 w/ 2 tumor's 5cm, and 6 cm (right side)
IDC (poorly differentiated infiltrating ductual carcinoma)
5+/16 nodes
Stage III A
Grade 3
ER/PR-, Her2/neu ++
Ki67 78%
Begin Chemo 5-2-05 4XAC Dose Dense , 4X Abraxane Dose Dense (ended August 05)
28 Rad's ended October 13 2005
Started Herceptin Weekly August 2005 for one year
Had a Simple mastectomy left side after Mamo showed incresed micro-calcifications. Jan. 17 2006.
Brain MRI Feb.2006--All Clear
August 28, 2006 Last Weekly Herceptin.
October 2006--Colonoscopy, 6 Polyp's removed--all B9
PET Scan July 2007
Abdominal MRI Oct. 2007---2 Right Kidney Cysts
Core Biopsy-- Lump on Scar Line 1-10-08---B9
Brain MRI 6-2008--All Clear
PET/CT Scan 6-2008
Sept. 8 2008, 4CM area removed from mastectomy scar line. Proved to be B9.
PET/CT Scan-- July 2009 --All clear
August 17,2009 ---Had Port Removed
6 Years NED -- April 5,2011
DX'd with Melanoma left arm 10-10-2011
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