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| Asked: 4/18/2013
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer,had 2 lumpectomies had persistent positive margins,next treatment plan will be mastectomy,but I''m not considering reconstruction.is there other options... |
| Asked: 3/7/2013
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I have stage 1 invasive lobular cancer in 2 quadrants of one breast and am planning bilateral mastectomy. |
| Asked: 2/11/2013
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I''m 58, had a double mastectomy, 3 axillary lymph nodes removed from right side, without reconstruction 9 weeks ago. |
| Asked: 1/8/2013
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hi. this site is so helpful, thank you. |
| Asked: 1/5/2013
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i had bilateral masectomy on nov 15. |
| Asked: 12/8/2012
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I dont have a question but just wanted to share with you all. |
| Asked: 12/3/2012
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ripling after reconstruction with silicon cogel. please explain about it. |
| Asked: 12/2/2012
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Thank you for helping so many. I had neoadjuvant chemo, ac + t, and my ilc did not respond. |
| Asked: 11/6/2012
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What are general reccomendations doctors give patients as far as determining whether to do a single mastectomy or double? I am rather young,36 and tested... |
| Asked: 10/30/2012
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I had a HER+++ IDC 5x4 cm. |
| Asked: 10/17/2012
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Can you explain what the percentage difference in possible recurrence between mastectomy and lumpectomy. |
| Asked: 10/16/2012
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I recently had a mastectomy of the left breast. |
| Asked: 10/15/2012
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Hello, Have been trying to understand all about types of treatments but still very confused. |
| Asked: 10/15/2012
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What size margins is most achievable? What is recommended for no recurrence? How can you be sure the surgeon got it all after mastectomy? Are... |
| Asked: 10/14/2012
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1.4 cm IDC. Would mastectomy give us less chance of recurrence and ensure doctor got all of tumor? Is radiation and chemo still given since mastectomy. |
| Asked: 9/26/2012
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can i still have reconstructive surgery after 16 years. |
| Asked: 9/14/2012
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Can a double mastectomy be performed at the same time as a thyroidectomy to avoid undergoing 2 general anesthesias. |
| Asked: 8/24/2012
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I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH DCIS, LOW GRADE, IN MY RIGHT BREAST AFTER THREE PREVIOUS BIOPIES SPANNING OVER 15 YEARS, MY LAST DIAGNOSIS BEING ATYPIA... |
| Asked: 8/2/2012
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I am in my 40 Years of aged . |
| Asked: 6/19/2012
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I would like to know how many hours it takes to do a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy without reconstruction? As a person with COPD, what... |
| Asked: 6/13/2012
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I am a 65 yr old male - simple mastectomy and axillary dissection 01/06/12 (two surgeries five weeks between each). |
| Asked: 5/21/2012
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How long will it take for me to recover from prophylactic surgery? I plan to have reconstruction at a later time if I have it at all.Thanks.Peggy. |
| Asked: 5/20/2012
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I''m the person who asked about the pain from the double mastectomy done om July 28, 2011. |
| Asked: 5/13/2012
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I am a year and two months out from mastectomy to left breast and still have pain under arm, along arm, chest and back. |
| Asked: 5/9/2012
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I had simple mastectomy two weeks ago. |
| Asked: 5/9/2012
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It''s been 10 months July 28th 2011 since I had a double mastectomy. |
| Asked: 5/2/2012
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Two weeks post-bilateral mastectomy and floppy asymmetrical cone/pouches in center of chest at either end of incision ("dog ears"?). |
| Asked: 4/4/2012
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Hello. Just had a bilateral masectomy With 15 lymph nodes removed march 19th. |
| Asked: 3/22/2012
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I have ductal invasive, stage 1, no nodes, grade 3 and a score of 3 on my oncotype...thus no chemo, only radiation and tamoxifen. |
| Asked: 3/20/2012
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I had a lumpectomy with chemo and radiation on my left breast 10 years ago. |
| Asked: 3/3/2012
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I had a double mastectomy 6 weeks ago , one breast had DCIS and I chose to have the other removed. |
| Asked: 2/19/2012
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Hello, I had a mastectomy without reconstruction. I have had significant post mastectomy pain. |
| Asked: 12/31/2011
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Hello There is research indicating that post mastectomy autologous fat grafting (in the scar) relieves post mastectomy pain syndrome and is a relatively safe procedure |
| Asked: 12/29/2011
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I had a simple mastectomy 2.5 weeks ago, drain removed 1.5 weeks ago. |
| Asked: 12/10/2011
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Hi, I have decided on a double mastectomy with implant breast reconstruction. |
| Asked: 11/29/2011
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Am I correct in thinking that LCIS (I have in 1 breast)means it''s contained in the lobes, DCIS(in the other breast) means it''s contained in... |
| Asked: 11/14/2011
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Hello, i am 58 yrs old. I had a bilateral masectomy june 16, 2011. |
| Asked: 11/14/2011
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Do you surgeons perform fat grafting if patient not happy with implant size. |
| Asked: 11/8/2011
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dear sir/mam i am a general surgery resident in india, we found a large... |
| Asked: 10/27/2011
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I had double mastectomy 10 days ago and I am experiencing severe burning in my chest. |
| Asked: 10/19/2011
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I am 66 and will have a MX in 2 weeks. |
| Asked: 10/17/2011
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I had reconstruction with saline implants and the left implant is too far to the left. |
| Asked: 10/13/2011
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I am curious if you have any idea how much a preventive mastectomy costs for someone with no insurance. |
| Asked: 10/7/2011
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My relative a 65 year old female was just diagnosed with invasive mammary carcinoma and with intermediate grade ductal carcinoma in situ. |
| Asked: 10/7/2011
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Putting asleep the nerves in the chest wall to help with post mastectomy pain...is that called "intercosta nerve blocks"? What would be the right term... |
| Asked: 10/4/2011
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I am thinking of getting a breast reduction in my remaining breast to "match" the little bit of tissue left from the mastectomy (under a... |
| Asked: 8/27/2011
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I had a mastectomy 5 months ago and still have pain in my armpit,back, chest and back of arm. |
| Asked: 8/17/2011
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After prophylactic mastectomy I had a huge hematoma. |
| Asked: 8/9/2011
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What is the difference between a bilateral and a double mastectomy? Also, I have to have a double mastectomy and am really leaning towards not... |
| Asked: 7/28/2011
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I had a bilateral mastectomy for adh and alh, multiple biopsies, mother had bc etc, after having an excisional biopsy on the right chest wall... |
| Asked: 7/13/2011
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I had a mastecomy 2 years ago and chose the latisamis back flap reconstruction method. |
| Asked: 5/16/2011
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Too thin for reconstruction? I don''t know if this is the right thread for this question, but here goes. |
| Asked: 4/2/2011
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I had my bilateral mastectomy on March 16th, the right side has more pain then the left, no nodes were removed, also the right drains... |
| Asked: 3/26/2011
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After prophylactic mastectomy without reconstruction I have the 12 cm hematoma. |
| Asked: 3/6/2011
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Lillie,my mx with reconstr. is planned to middle of March,but today I found an artilce on from "breastimplantinfo org" how many risks can be related to implants. |
| Asked: 3/6/2011
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8 weeks ago I had a bilateral mastectomy w/out reconstruction due to a small amount of DCIS in one breast. |
| Asked: 2/26/2011
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Hi! I was(am) IDC 1.3cm, unifocal, grade 3, 5 sentinel and 2 axillary nodes clean, ER-, PR:10-15%, HER2-, with DCIS ("high grade, solid with comedo... |
| Asked: 2/24/2011
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I was initially diagnosed with DCIS-0 in the left breast on Jan.13, and had a left breast mastectomy on Feb. |
| Asked: 2/20/2011
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Hello. I had DCIS and SNB and mastectomy of left breast in 05. |
| Asked: 2/17/2011
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I had stage 1 bc, er pr negative, her2 positive. |
| Asked: 2/12/2011
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After prophylactic mastectomy without reconstruction I developed a big (12 cm) hematoma. |
| Asked: 2/4/2011
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So Lillie, my Med Onc says my post-lumpectomy desire for bilateral mastectomy is not ''medically necessary'' but that she ''will support'' me. |
| Asked: 1/29/2011
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How do I reconcile the following, both taken from different sections of the hopkinsmedicine.org website:(1) the reasons listed under "Who Should Get A Mastectomy", and(2)... |
| Asked: 1/18/2011
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I have had right breast mastectomy last month. |
| Asked: 1/7/2011
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After mastectomy without reconstruction I have seroma/hematoma which lasts for 3 months now. |
| Asked: 12/22/2010
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Thank you for your response. Yes. |
| Asked: 12/22/2010
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I had a bilateral mastectomy about two weeks ago (prophylactic for left breast, 3 cm ductal/lobular mass in right breast, 2 sentinel nodes removed and... |
| Asked: 12/1/2010
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Hi, I would be interested in buying a pair of Truflife breast forms for a relative who had a bilateral mastectomy. |
| Asked: 11/30/2010
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I had breast mastectomy and 4 months later developed hematoma. |
| Asked: 11/23/2010
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I had a mastectomy and re-excision surgery and I am almost 2 months post surgery. |
| Asked: 11/19/2010
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Lillie, following my previous question: what is the old blood? |
| Asked: 11/18/2010
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Hi, Lillie! Four months ago I had the prophilactic mastectomy, no limph nodes dissection. |
| Asked: 10/2/2010
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My mother is 63 and she has been diagnised with stage 2 ductal carcinoma. |
| Asked: 9/25/2010
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As a correction and follow up to my last question about oophorectomy-- the 4.8 mm and 7 mm ILC of left breast were in January,... |
| Asked: 9/25/2010
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I was diagnosed with invasive lobular her2+BC 4.8 mm and 7 mm es+/pr+ in right breast in 1/09 and had lumpectomy and radiation and put... |
| Asked: 8/18/2010
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Hi,Lillie! My oncologist prescribed me 3 years on tamoxyfan and then to switch to AI for 2 more years. |
| Asked: 8/13/2010
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72 yr old, simple mastectomy on 7/19. |
| Asked: 8/10/2010
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Lillie, I am back with another question. |
| Asked: 7/23/2010
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Bi Lateral on March 11, 2010 couldn''t do PT until almost 3 months because of fluid and packing open wound. |
| Asked: 7/22/2010
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Dear Lillie! I had the left breast mastectomy in November 2009 due to IDC stage 1 and the prophylactic mastectomy of the right breast 10 days ago. |
| Asked: 7/13/2010
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Yesterday I had the prophilactic mastectomy of my remaining breast. |
| Asked: 7/10/2010
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Hello, I just had a bilateral mastectomy without reconstruction. |
| Asked: 6/17/2010
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Lillie, could you please tell me the difference between breast cancer mastectomy and prophylactic mastectomy. |
| Asked: 6/16/2010
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Thanks for the quick response. Following my previous question: should I stop taking tamoxifen before the mastectomy? My doctor was not sure about it, I have the impression that she has never done the prophylactic mastectomy before. |
| Asked: 6/15/2010
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Hi, Lillie! I was diagnosed with IDC in October 2009. |
| Asked: 6/7/2010
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I had invasive ductal carcinoma, mixed mucinous type in my left breast with a 1.2 cm tumor. |
| Asked: 5/16/2010
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I have a trip planned two weeks after my unilateral mastectomy. |
| Asked: 5/7/2010
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What happens if prophylactic mastectomy was performed and the phatologyst found the cancer in the removed breast? Can you trust the mammogram 100%? |
| Asked: 5/6/2010
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Following my previous question: if the prohylactic mastectomy is performed in your hospital ,do you send the removed breast to the pathologist? Thanks for your... |
| Asked: 5/5/2010
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Hi,Lillie! I had the mastectomy with sentinal limphnode dissection on my left breast in November 2009 and now I am planning the mastectomy of my... |
| Asked: 3/31/2010
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On January 24 I had a right side radical mastectomy and the dissection of the Sentinel & two nearby lymph nodes. |
| Asked: 3/29/2010
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I had a bilateral mastectomy in November 2009. |
| Asked: 3/25/2010
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I had the left breast mastectomy with sentinal node biopsy (sentinal node and one more node were removed, two in total) on 9 November 2009 . |
| Asked: 3/9/2010
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I have a question that my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 3 years back T1N1M0, IDC, ER and PR Neg, Her 2 Neu Score1.She... |
| Asked: 3/3/2010
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I was dx''d Left IDC 2.3 cm Stage II grade 2 tumor 6/2008. |
| Asked: 3/3/2010
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I had a mastectomy on my right breast without reconstruction in September, 2008. |
| Asked: 1/23/2010
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Eleven years ago,after takin HRT for 15 years, I had DCIS, right breast, estrogen-positive. |
| Asked: 12/6/2009
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My mother is 86. Less than 2 years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. |
| Asked: 11/15/2009
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I had a bilateraly mastectomy going on 8 weeks ago. |
| Asked: 11/15/2009
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You state in your cancer update no water bottles in FREEZER you don''t mean REFRUGERATORS do you Thank you. |
