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Old 07-10-2013, 06:46 AM   #1
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Re: Not any kinds of scans will be done!

One other thing to remember about scans: everyone has a lifetime limit for radiation exposure. Since it is not the practice to track cumulative exposure for patients, no one knows when you have reached your upper limit. Radiation itself is cancinogenic. It should be used sparingly and only where necessary. Asymptomatic scanning is not normally medically necessary.

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Old 07-10-2013, 11:22 AM   #2
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Re: Not any kinds of scans will be done!

As far as radiation and limits!! I cannot imgine not reaching that limit!!

Denise,

3% goes of BC goes to brain, intersting. I didn't know the perentage. Do you know the percentage for the rest; Liver, Lungs, or Bones??? HER2 is only in 20% of patients from the get go so we are unique from the start.
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IDC breast cancer
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7/20/12 biopsy done. ER+ 30 PR -, HER+++,k167 80% Grade 2
9/2012 biopsy on lymph node - showed malignant

9/2012 Pre-adjunctive TCH chemo.

12/6/12 MRI after Pre-adj.
Results: Modest Decrease in size of left breast malignancy As well as the associated satellite lesions and auxiliary Adenopathy compared to prior study. Doctors hoped for better but good response it didn't grow.

12/18/2012 left masectomy with axillary nodes
Size 3.2 CM, Nottingham score 9/9
Grade 3, no evidence of in situ carcinoma
Areas of angiolymphatic are identified
Carcinoma is 0.5 cm from inked deep
Margin of excision
Attached axillary lymph nodes: metastatic
Carcinoma in 6 of 8 nodes.
Size of largest node 1.5 cm
Extracapsular
ER + 73%, PR+2%, HER2+

2/27/13 6 weeks of IMRT radiation finished

2/2013 Started on Tamoxifan 5 years.

8/2013 will take last Herceptin, 17 treatments total every 3 weeks.

BRCA1 & BRAC2 - Negative

August 28, 2013 DIEP flap on the left breast.
February 2014 Nip & Tuck
March 14, 2014 nipple reconstruction and removed port.
August 14, 2014 lump in lymph nodes under arm and above clavicle. Stage IV
August 28, 2014 herceptin And projeta starting and port put back in.

3/18/15 stopped arimidex.
3/18/15 progression....Tdm1
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