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Re: DianneS: choices after mastectomy
I found a very lightweight silicone prosthesis that you don't even feel like you are wearing it. The one thing that bothers me is my remaining right breast seems to keep changing size, due to my age, and I have to get a new prosthesis. My insurance pays for a new one every year. It works for me. Mary L
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Mary L from PA Diag: Oct 2003 w/6mm mass, IDC grade III ductal carcinoma in-situ, IBC stage IIIB. tx A/C followed by Taxotere(only able to have 2 tx, allergic), mastectomy, 3 0ut of 7 positive nodes. 35 rads. Recurrence 9 months later, skin mets to mastectomy site. Tx Carboplatin/Herceptin. Stayed on Herceptin almost 5 years, had 3 more recurrences when I had to stop Herceptin due to my ejection fraction getting too low. Herceptin stopped and ned 3 years in Oct. 2010.
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