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| Asked: 7/29/2010
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My mother in laws stage lung cancer has been treated seemingly successfully for a year with decreased activity. |
| Asked: 7/29/2010
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I had a lumpectomy - a 1.9cm DCIS tumor with a .9cm invasive component was removed. |
| Asked: 7/28/2010
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Thank you for your fast response about the 3 options I was given. |
| Asked: 7/28/2010
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Dear Lilly, I had a bilateral masecotomy and am just back from the oncologist he gave me 3 choices Dose dense ac x 4 then... |
| Asked: 7/28/2010
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Hello Lillie, I''ll be starting AC+T. My oncologist recommended Emend before and first two days after AC. |
| Asked: 7/26/2010
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Hello! I hope you can help me. |
| Asked: 7/26/2010
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One of my very good friends is 43 with ILC and had a mastectomy and diflap reconstruction. |
| Asked: 7/24/2010
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How does nuprigin help with chemotherapy? |
| Asked: 7/24/2010
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how many times should I expect my eyelashes and eyebrows to fall out afer chemo. |
| Asked: 7/23/2010
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TC x 4 vs. TC x 6 Can you explain the differences between TC x 4 vs. |
| Asked: 7/21/2010
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My mother was recently diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. |
| Asked: 7/21/2010
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in 2008 i felt a mass in my left breast,but i neglected it.then i had a lumpectomy and in the biopsy report it was well... |
| Asked: 7/20/2010
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I have just had two tumors and all of my lympth nodes removed from my right breast. |
| Asked: 7/19/2010
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dearest lillie my question may seem odd .i live in a hot area were air conditioning is not always available . |
| Asked: 7/18/2010
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Hello - Diagnosed with IDC. I have multifocal tumors - 1.5cm, 7 mm and 1 mm. |
| Asked: 7/18/2010
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I am a 60 year old type 2 diabetic, recently diagnosed with IDC, 2.8 cm, ER/PR weakly positive, HER2 negative, tumor is grade 3. |
| Asked: 7/13/2010
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Hi Lili My oncologist decided 3 cycles of taxotere followed by 3 cycles of FEC,but on the second cycle of taxotere I had a very bad... |
| Asked: 7/13/2010
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I posted my question last week and received response on 7/10 with a web for response. |
| Asked: 7/12/2010
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44 yr old, T2N0M0 (+ihc)ER+PR+Her2-, lumpectomy of 2.5cm tumor w/ clean margins - recommendation is for either AC + Taxol or C + Taxotere followed... |
| Asked: 7/12/2010
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My wife will be undergoing chemo. She is on medicare with supplemental drug coverage. |
| Asked: 7/8/2010
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Is hormone therapy (tamoxifen or AI) without standard chemotherapy drugs able to destroy microscopic cancer cells that have left the breast? . |
| Asked: 7/6/2010
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Does hormone therapy address microsopic cancer cells that are highly estrogren progesterone positive that may have left the breast? |
| Asked: 7/5/2010
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Is it possible to take hormone therapy (AI or Tamoxifen) while having radiation treatment for breast cancer.. |
| Asked: 6/28/2010
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Thanks so much for your answer re Grade 1 tumours and chemo. |
| Asked: 6/24/2010
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Doesn''t NCT00041119 (clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT00041119)/ CALGB-40101 (www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/CALGB-40101) shed some light on 4 vs. |
| Asked: 6/23/2010
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My wife, age 49, was diagnosed with a breast cancer recurrence in March 2010. |
| Asked: 6/22/2010
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My first DX was 2004 at age 45: Multi focal (3 tumours) - total tumour load - 2.2cm ER+ and PR+: Treatment was... |
| Asked: 6/19/2010
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follow up to the eyelash/brow question...do they fall out mutiple times? How many times? How long to be normal again. |
| Asked: 6/19/2010
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Do your eyelashs and brows always fall out for everyone? I am almost 4 weeks post chemo (TCx4) and I have been reading where... |
| Asked: 6/12/2010
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Hi am calling from Europe. I am 43Y. Last December i had breast conserving surgery (left) prior to excisional biopsy a month earlier during which a tumour 2x1.5x1cm invasive ductal was removed. Tumour characteristics: Nuclear Grade 2.Er 3+,Pgr 3+,HER-2 1+. |
| Asked: 6/5/2010
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ER+ PR+ HER2 + 13 mm tumor IDC Possible 2 nodes positive with MRI what type of chemo will they prescribe. |
| Asked: 6/4/2010
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i have ILC. 2.6 cm lymph nodes were negative i had a mastectomy, my ER is 90% positive,My PR is 90% positive.My HER-2 is 1+/negative... |
| Asked: 6/1/2010
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Just met with the onco yesterday and was given a menu to pick from to decide my fate. |
| Asked: 6/1/2010
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thank you for your reply.but you didn''t answer if 8% worth doing chemo..with all the side effects of chemo please help. |
| Asked: 5/31/2010
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In april I been diagnosed with ILC no lymph involvement lesion is 2.7cm..I went to Md anderson.during the ultrasound they suspected in one lymph so... |
| Asked: 5/25/2010
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My wife had a lumpectomy, stage i, 1.3 cm, sentinel node negative, HER2 negative, oncotype 24. |
| Asked: 5/24/2010
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Hi, I am a 45 yr. old woman diagnosed w/stage 4 BC in 1997.I had a recurrence in 98 and 99. |
| Asked: 5/17/2010
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I am 38 years old, was diagnosed last fall with multi-focal DCIS. |
| Asked: 5/16/2010
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I am 49 years old diagnosed with stage 1 grade 2/3 invasive ductal carcinoma, clear nodes, clear margins, ER and PR positive, tumour total size 1.2cm. |
| Asked: 5/16/2010
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Hi Lillie....I am 55 yrs.old with IDC 1.3cm. |
| Asked: 5/13/2010
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My 14 yr old son was jut diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. |
| Asked: 5/12/2010
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Hi Lillie, You answered my earlier question. Mom is 61 years old, she had radical mastectomy - left side- on 04/02/10. |
| Asked: 5/12/2010
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I''ve taken 3 of 4 a/c treatments with 4 taxol treatments to follow before completing chemo in July for IDC grade 2 breast cancer. |
| Asked: 5/11/2010
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I am 42 and I have recently underwent a lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy. |
| Asked: 5/8/2010
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how long do the chemo drugs (side effects) of chemo last after finishing treatment. |
| Asked: 5/8/2010
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My Mom is 61 years old, she had radical mastectomy - left side- on 04/02/10. |
| Asked: 5/8/2010
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My mother has just been through the first Chemo session (she is suffering from Stage 4 breast cancer). |
| Asked: 5/7/2010
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I asked the last question about Taxol and Herceptin. |
| Asked: 5/6/2010
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Had a lumpectomy on April 1 with sentinel node biopsy--4 lymph nodes removed were clear, clean margins after 1 re-excision to gain 2mm margins all... |
| Asked: 5/6/2010
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Hi there I had asked the question regarding having only two rounds of taxotere cytoxan versus four for stage one bilateral multcentric bc. |
| Asked: 5/5/2010
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My father-in-law is about to start chemo on Friday for bladder cancer. |
| Asked: 5/5/2010
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My question is i was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer three spots all under 2 centimeters but multicentric node negative erprpositive her2 neg in 2008. I... |
| Asked: 4/30/2010
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Dear Doctor, My Mom is a breast cancer patient that has her cancer spread from her breast to neck area and to her brain which she... |
| Asked: 4/28/2010
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I been diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma stage 2 with no lymph involved the tumor is 2.7x2.3x0.9cm and I weight 115.the doctor gave me 2... |
| Asked: 4/28/2010
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I am 40 years old now.I was dx in oct/2009 with 8.5 cm dcis nuclear grade 3 and invasive component 2.1,no lymph node involvement.I had... |
| Asked: 4/25/2010
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dear lillie i wanna ask about a clinical trial for *Lapatinib in Combination With Radiation Therapy in Patients With Brain Metastases From HER2-Positive Breast Cancer* sponsored... |
| Asked: 4/20/2010
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undergoing chemo currently what if I can take the last treatment and only make 3 vs. |
| Asked: 4/20/2010
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idc, 6mm, PR+, ER-, HER2- no node invlovment. |
| Asked: 4/14/2010
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My wife 63 years of age was dx''d with infiltrating ductal carcinoma. |
| Asked: 4/12/2010
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Hello, Is grade 1 breast cancer less receptive to chemo? Does grade have less significance in ILC? Thank you.. |
| Asked: 4/12/2010
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Dear Lillie, My father was told to take Claritin the day he receives Neulasta and for 3-4 days after. |
| Asked: 4/11/2010
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i had 6 months of chemo and my mouth is still sore its been a year since my last treatment...my mouth still gets thrush on... |
| Asked: 4/11/2010
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dear lillie is it OK to take depakine with xeloda ,or they should be taken apart? thanks. |
| Asked: 4/6/2010
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Hello, Stage 1, .9mm ILC, Grade 1 ER/PR+, HER-. |
| Asked: 4/5/2010
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I was treated neoadjuvant chemo for stage 3 triple negative breast cancer. |
| Asked: 4/3/2010
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I have heard that L-Glutamine can help with the symptoms of neuropathy from chemo. |
| Asked: 3/31/2010
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Last year, May 2009, I had a cervical cancer stage 2, I had chemo and radio 50 sessions each one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. |
| Asked: 3/25/2010
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I have stage 1, Est 100%+, prog. |
| Asked: 3/23/2010
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Are higher dose chemotherapy treatments mean less cycles of chemotherapy will be needed? I''m currently conducting research into long term effects of chemotherapy and have... |
| Asked: 3/23/2010
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IDC 6mm, Stage 1 , Grade 3. |
| Asked: 3/22/2010
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I was diagnosed with ILC T2N0M0, oncotype DX 14. |
| Asked: 3/20/2010
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Need to make decision to have chemo or not? Had lumpectomy clear margins Neg. |
| Asked: 3/20/2010
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I am 43 years old and have been diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. |
| Asked: 3/17/2010
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Hi Lillie, I was detected with breast cancer with following findings: IDC Grade 2, Tumor : 1.3 cm x 0.8 cm x 1 cm, Modified R... |
| Asked: 3/15/2010
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Hello, I am in my mid 40''s. Recently, I have my right mastectomy done. |
| Asked: 3/15/2010
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Hello: I was late to the appointment for chemo #2 and when I arrived, the doctor checked her computer and realized she had forgotten... |
| Asked: 3/15/2010
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Hi - what is the reason for 6 rounds of taxatere carboplatin herceptin versus 4 rounds with cytoxan instead of carboplatin? Thank you and... |
| Asked: 3/14/2010
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Diagnosed 12/15/09 with IDC. Large excisional biopsy 1.2cm pos,"some margins pos." (No markings). |
| Asked: 3/14/2010
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I am 48 years old, already post meanapause and had a lumpectomy for a 1.0 cm invasive ductal carcinoma with lobular features tumor. |
| Asked: 3/14/2010
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Hello, I was dignoised with IDC on Feb 15th. |
| Asked: 3/14/2010
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Lillie-what exactly happens to your veins after chemo to make them so sclerosed, I guess? It is just a little annoying, having lymph node dissection on... |
| Asked: 3/12/2010
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I had a 3.5 cent tumor removed last week. |
| Asked: 3/9/2010
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Hi, I finished six TAC chemos (three weeks apart) in April of 2008. |
| Asked: 3/9/2010
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I had a severe allergic reaction to taxotere and my oncologist thinks I should try taxol. |
| Asked: 3/8/2010
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Hi - my wife is Her2 positive with a high grade tumor in one breast. |
| Asked: 3/6/2010
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Hi Lillie, I was detected with breast cancer with following findings: IDC Grade 3, Tumor : 1.3 cm x 0.8 cm x 1 cm, Modified R... |
| Asked: 3/5/2010
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I am a 42 yr old, african american woman. |
| Asked: 3/4/2010
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Hi Johns Hopkins University I am a 30 year old patient just diagnosed with DCIS and IDC. |
| Asked: 3/3/2010
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Hello Johns Hopkins I refer to the portion of the e mail copied and pasted in below. As the header indicates, they sat this article comes from... |
| Asked: 3/3/2010
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Ten months ago, I had a bilateral mastectomy for a 5 cm. |
| Asked: 3/1/2010
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I was on Taxol for about 11 weeks. |
| Asked: 3/1/2010
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HI I am a 42 year old female diagnosed with stage 2a breast cancer in October 2009. |
| Asked: 2/15/2010
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Hi. I am 46yrs old, had a 13mm solid papillary tumor removed, originally thought to be DCIS. |
| Asked: 2/7/2010
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Hi Lillie-One year out since dx for er pr +++ breast ca-had double mast and ACT. |
| Asked: 2/6/2010
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Hi,
My mother (68 years old) is diagnosed with breast cancer stage IIA. |
| Asked: 12/20/2009
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dear lillie
my last pet scan showed some progression in my bone mets ,otherwise no obvios extraskeletal lesions,i was on tykerb monotherapy ,never used xeloda before... |
| Asked: 12/15/2009
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I am a 30 year old female that was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 3 IDC. |
| Asked: 11/23/2009
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Could you please tell me if there is a maximum number of cycles of Doxil? My wife has had 3 cycles and so far doing well with side effects etc.. |
| Asked: 11/22/2009
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chemo for agressive b-cell t -rich non hodgkins lymphoma.
now having vision problems in right eye. |
| Asked: 11/16/2009
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At Breastcancer.org, an article (dated August 1, 2009) about chemo states that the "dose-dense" schedule (every two weeks "can improve survival and lower the risk... |
