**Patty---disneygirl:
WHAT is YOUR situation ??
I'm getting a CT/PET scan today----to assess:
1996: masectomy/chemo radiation/....followed by ** tamoxifen--due to a few nodes involved and grade 3, etc.
back to **teaching job after a year....
very good oncologist in Vancouver, Canada
Jan/Feb 2008 == recurrence when tumor marker increased gradually to about 60 ( it always correlated )...and swelling near clacicle and pectoral muscle was increasing (when my oncologist was on research leave--they said -it was Lymphadema--like my arm-- instead of recurrence!!
Feb 2008 --tumor marker up again---and soon March-July 2008 ==chemo doxetaxol with some radiation
Aug. 2009---started oral capecitabine--due to same thing...okay----but then RECENT RED swelling outward /inflammation in that area-- SO:
March 15 probably start : cisplatin/gemcitabine regime.....
Someone on the main site said that YOU maybe had a similar chest thing.....
I've coped well with it....sometimes it smarts/stings, etc......
Where do you go in california? my married niece lives in L.A.
Have you heard of that Brezinski guy in Houston? Suzanne Somers....
also in Sacramento.... famous surgeon Ernie Bodai ??
However-- even a thoracic surgeon (after isaw my breast surgeon) said that he maybe could do...BUT very extreme operation and my oncologist is against it
Thanks, Janice