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 Asked: 12/31/2011 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 I had a simple mastectomy 2.5 weeks ago, drain removed 1.5 weeks ago.
 Asked: 12/10/2011 Hi, I have decided on a double mastectomy with implant breast reconstruction.
 Asked: 11/29/2011 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 Hello, i am 58 yrs old. I had a bilateral masectomy june 16, 2011.
 Asked: 11/14/2011 Do you surgeons perform fat grafting if patient not happy with implant size.
 Asked: 11/8/2011 dear sir/mam i am a general surgery resident in india, we found a large...
 Asked: 10/27/2011 I had double mastectomy 10 days ago and I am experiencing severe burning in my chest.
 Asked: 10/19/2011 I am 66 and will have a MX in 2 weeks.
 Asked: 10/17/2011 I had reconstruction with saline implants and the left implant is too far to the left.
 Asked: 10/13/2011 I am curious if you have any idea how much a preventive mastectomy costs for someone with no insurance.
 Asked: 10/7/2011 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 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 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 I had a mastectomy 5 months ago and still have pain in my armpit,back, chest and back of arm.
 Asked: 8/17/2011 After prophylactic mastectomy I had a huge hematoma.
 Asked: 8/9/2011 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 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 I had a mastecomy 2 years ago and chose the latisamis back flap reconstruction method.
 Asked: 5/16/2011 Too thin for reconstruction? I don''t know if this is the right thread for this question, but here goes.
 Asked: 4/2/2011 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 After prophylactic mastectomy without reconstruction I have the 12 cm hematoma.
 Asked: 3/6/2011 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 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 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 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 Hello. I had DCIS and SNB and mastectomy of left breast in 05.
 Asked: 2/17/2011 I had stage 1 bc, er pr negative, her2 positive.
 Asked: 2/12/2011 After prophylactic mastectomy without reconstruction I developed a big (12 cm) hematoma.
 Asked: 2/4/2011 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 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 I have had right breast mastectomy last month.
 Asked: 1/7/2011 After mastectomy without reconstruction I have seroma/hematoma which lasts for 3 months now.
 Asked: 12/22/2010 Thank you for your response. Yes.
 Asked: 12/22/2010 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 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 I had breast mastectomy and 4 months later developed hematoma.
 Asked: 11/23/2010 I had a mastectomy and re-excision surgery and I am almost 2 months post surgery.
 Asked: 11/19/2010 Lillie, following my previous question: what is the old blood?
 Asked: 11/18/2010 Hi, Lillie! Four months ago I had the prophilactic mastectomy, no limph nodes dissection.
 Asked: 10/2/2010 My mother is 63 and she has been diagnised with stage 2 ductal carcinoma.
 Asked: 9/25/2010 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 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 Hi,Lillie! My oncologist prescribed me 3 years on tamoxyfan and then to switch to AI for 2 more years.
 Asked: 8/13/2010 72 yr old, simple mastectomy on 7/19.
 Asked: 8/10/2010 Lillie, I am back with another question.
 Asked: 7/23/2010 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 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 Yesterday I had the prophilactic mastectomy of my remaining breast.
 Asked: 7/10/2010 Hello, I just had a bilateral mastectomy without reconstruction.
 Asked: 6/17/2010 Lillie, could you please tell me the difference between breast cancer mastectomy and prophylactic mastectomy.
 Asked: 6/16/2010 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 Hi, Lillie! I was diagnosed with IDC in October 2009.
 Asked: 6/7/2010 I had invasive ductal carcinoma, mixed mucinous type in my left breast with a 1.2 cm tumor.
 Asked: 5/16/2010 I have a trip planned two weeks after my unilateral mastectomy.
 Asked: 5/7/2010 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 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 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 On January 24 I had a right side radical mastectomy and the dissection of the Sentinel & two nearby lymph nodes.
 Asked: 3/29/2010 I had a bilateral mastectomy in November 2009.
 Asked: 3/25/2010 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 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 I was dx''d Left IDC 2.3 cm Stage II grade 2 tumor 6/2008.
 Asked: 3/3/2010 I had a mastectomy on my right breast without reconstruction in September, 2008.
 Asked: 1/23/2010 Eleven years ago,after takin HRT for 15 years, I had DCIS, right breast, estrogen-positive.
 Asked: 12/6/2009 My mother is 86. Less than 2 years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
 Asked: 11/15/2009 I had a bilateraly mastectomy going on 8 weeks ago.
 Asked: 11/15/2009 You state in your cancer update no water bottles in FREEZER you don''t mean REFRUGERATORS do you Thank you.
 Asked: 8/30/2009 Hello, I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 at age 44.
 Asked: 8/28/2009 I was diagnosed 5 yrs ago with Stage 1 invasive, hormone negative, her2+.
 Asked: 8/16/2009 I was diagnosed in 06 with left breast can stage 1, triple negative grade 1 with lymphovascular invasion.
 Asked: 7/27/2009 I have had a lumpectomy for a 1 centimeter muscinous tumor and a re-excision for one margin that had DCIS and still does.
 Asked: 7/19/2009 I have read through many of the pages on this terrific site but haven''t really seen my question addressed.
 Asked: 7/18/2009 I have a question about leaving areola tissue with a mastectomy.
 Asked: 6/21/2009 How soon after a mastectomy can one fly? Does this increase the risk of lymphedema? Should the arm on the affected side be wrapped when flying?
 Asked: 4/4/2009 Hello.My question is what is the localized recurrence risk having a mastectomy?
 Asked: 1/12/2009 What is the followup for prophylactic bilateral mastectomy patients (patients are told some breast tissue may remain and cancer could occur)...it seems as though mammograms...
 Asked: 1/3/2009 Hi - 38 year old with stage I breast cancer - 1.3cm, grade 1, ER/Pr + and Her -2 neg.
 Asked: 12/21/2008 is there a cream that will minimize my breast cancer scar? i recently had a failed reconstruction and would like to do what i can...
 Asked: 12/21/2008 On December 8th, 2008, I underwent a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction due to a very large malignant tumor in my right breast and a good...
 Asked: 11/2/2008 In 2004 I had bilateral lumpectomy + radiation for DCIS stage 0.
 Asked: 9/29/2008 I know you read 100''s of questions a day but I have just one more.
 Asked: 9/27/2008 I was diagnosed two years ago with stage1,grade 1 with lymphovascular invasion tripe neg''s.
 Asked: 8/23/2008 A friend of mine in Italy was just diagnosed with IDC, 3.5 cm, ER+/PR+/Her2+ with lymph node involvement (I don''t know the extent).
 Asked: 8/16/2008 I had a double mastectomy 3 weeks ago.
 Asked: 8/2/2008 Not really a question, but an observation for others: I''m 3 yrs out from first mastectomy [DCIS} and 2 yrs out from the second [ALH/ADH]...
 Asked: 6/14/2008 I had a mastectomy ten years ago.
 Asked: 5/24/2008 Hi Lillie I was wondering, could the development in stem cell research lead to some substitute to reconstruction surgery in the near future..
 Asked: 3/8/2008 I am a 39 year old with VonWillebrands Type 2B and have IDC, and will need to have a mastectomy (based on the tumor size...
 Asked: 10/31/2007 I was told Ihad papelloma virus, benighn, i had surgery and everything is negative.
 Asked: 6/15/2007 I have IBC and had a modified radical mastectomy in March 06.
 Asked: 6/5/2007 Just had bilaterla mastectomies. Devasted that no attention was paid to symmetry of incisions or the amount of skin removed.
 Asked: 5/14/2007 Hi Not sure where to post my question, I had a part Mast in march 06 with complication of an open wound from a seroma.
 Asked: 5/1/2007 I am 44 with 3 young children and have been diagnosed with Non invasive DCIS in left breast.
 Asked: 1/29/2007 Twenty years ago I had 26 radiation treatments and 2 days of a radioactive implant for breast cancer.
 Asked: 1/7/2007 Thanks for such a great resource. I wrote last fall RE: a hx of 4 mamms in 2 years with a "probably benign" BIRADS 3 score.
 Asked: 12/15/2006 Following treatment (mastectomy, chemo, radiation) I developed a winging scapula and reduced shoulder range of motion.
 Asked: 12/15/2006 (Sorry if this is a duplicate..I got an error message when submitting.) I have been diagnosed with IDC in 1 breast.
 Asked: 12/12/2006 HI, I am 40, and this spring I had IDC stage 1.
 Asked: 11/29/2006 My mother is 72 years old and had a mastectomy 8 years ago which was a success (she did not have to have any radition,...
 
 
 
 
 

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