Experience with 2nd cancer in same breast?

Please don't be hard on yourself. You have important, unwanted surgery coming up in ten days and I am certain you are on edge. Very, very understandably so. Plus you are probably trying to figure out what to wear when we have lunch on Wednesday.  You will be happy to know that I have decided on green chinos and a comfortable shirt and Ecco shoes which are not too good looking but help my ailing back.

The only thing that is clear in all of this is that you are a lovely woman and a tremendous asset to all of us in our TNBC Foundation family..you have a first-rate intellect and generously share your knowledge with us and a compassionate heart. You have helped so many, many here. I am honored to be your friend so please be kind and gentle to yourself. You are our wonderful, quirky Denise. We are very lucky that you are here and we shall be here for you, as well.

see you soon and looking forward to a hug..

love,

Steve

 

I would like to suggewt that you contact the Bio Medical Center in Tijuana Mexico for alternative therapy consideration.  Also, go vegan and increase exercise program.  I was told that cancer is not a "system disease", but a blood disease, therefore, it is very helpful to begin by changing the blood chemistry and cleansing the blood as well.  I am a triple neg, since June 2009, with lumpectomy at Swedish in Seattle.    Doing okay now, it is never cured...  just controlled.  All the very best of success to you!

I was dx @ 47 1/09 TN in right breast had lumpectomy followed by 16 rounds of A/C + Avastin, followed by Taxol X12 weekly, then 35 radiation treatments.   Finished chemo 8/6/09, then finished radiation 10/27/09.  I found another lump in the armpit of the same breast last July.  Had biopsy to confirm same TN cancer.  Had bi lat mastectomy 8/19/10 w/expanders.  I see my onc tomorrow to see what, if any treatment I will need.   The Taxol left me with nerve damage to my hands and feet... since the recurrence happened so fast it is considered treatment failure....I feel like I dont have alot of choices.  As much as I dont want to do chemo again....I still feel it has some insurances...I DON'T want to do nothing and just wait and see where it pops up again ????   What is the Carbolain ???

Thanks, Renee

 

Hey, we are all adults on this board and I certainly know only too well that one man's sugar is another man's vinegar. 

 

Don't apologize.  I think with the situations we are all in, that it's more than fair game to give one's opinion of a situation they found themselves in, or what their particular reaction to any doctor might have been - and that it can prove timesaving and exceptionally important to someone.  If I didn't have a good outcome or a "warm-fuzzy" feeling with someone I was entrusting my life with, especially someone reknowned, I would speak my feelings as well, knowing full well that for someone else, she/he may be wonderful.  We all make our own choices as we well should.

 

No need to censor yourself - ever.

 

Linda

just my two cents (probably worth a lot less)....I think it is important that if someone has something that is negative to say about a physician, by name, it is better to invite folks to send you a PM and then tell them whatever you want privately. This is primarily for the protection of the website because a doc who has been criticized may decide to sue the site.  I have no official connection with TNBC Foundation and no one has asked me to post the above. Again, this is just my opinion.

I had lunch with Denise yesterday and it was wonderful to see her. She seems at piece with her decision to have surgery next week and she looks wonderful and is very happy at her new job. 

I told her that she has been, is and will be in my prayers as I am sure is the case with everyone here. Denise, we all wish you the best, I am sure..

love,

Steve