I know someone who either relapsed or had new breast cancer (IBC that time) 7 years out, and she passed very quickly. I fear I shall never loose the FEAR. I'll be fine, I'll laugh, I'll do what I need to do, and then some, but I know that every once in a while, like a thief in the night, it will creep into my mind, and give me chills.

Farla
dx 8/09, R double lumpectomy, invasive mixed DCIS/LCIS
ER + PR + Her -
1/3 Sentinel pos. 1/15 nodes pos
 Stage 2A  Grade 2, Nottingham 6
chemo A/C x4, Taxol x 4 started 9/21/09 DONE!!!
femara  started 2/5/10
rads  2/8/10 DONE!!!
Now - osteoporosis?  Vit D, calcium, and a baby aspirin to boot!

Tricia

In keeping with the constant plethora of news regarding supplements, I think there was something recently regarding the downside of calcium and vit D supplements, but I didn't pay much attention because i take neither.  You might go online and check it out....it was within the last week or ten days. 

Hug
Elaine

 A person's greatness is the power to stand alone;to be able to make her own choice; in action,to write anew her own law; to choose her own sacrifices; run her own dangers; win her own freedom; venture her own destruction; to choose her own happiness 
 

I just heard from a girlfriend that another one of our friends (who was diagnosed with BC shortly after I was), is scheduled for a triple by-pass tomorrow. The surgeon said that the radiation she went through with the BC is what caused the damage. It reminded me of what the radiologist had said to me when I went in for the first visit. She did say there could be heart damage since it was the left breast. I wonder how many end up with this. This woman is two years out from her BC DX. My prayers are definitely with her and her family tomorrow! This disease sucks!

When ever I am feeling good because I didn't have chemo..something else pops up reminding me that I still had bc...and radiation to my left breast. I do know that the rad's onc did do their best to avoid my lungs and heart. Piki, Will be keeping your friend in my thoughts tomorrow...please let us know how she is doing. Hope and Strength for us all!

Bothell, WA
dx 5/07 IDC
lumpectomy 6/14/07 1.5cm
er/pr + Nodes negative
finished rads 9/13
Tamoxfen 9/07- 8/09
Arimidex 8/09-

i'm a gma watcher and really like Robin Roberts.  I feel sad that she must face another hurdle. 
I also  read that only some 300 of these cases diagnosed yearly the result of previous cancer tx, and each year about one million americans have chemotherapy for some form of cancer.  so it seems that your chance of being struck by lightning is greater than contracting mds as a complication from previous tx

dx ILC/dcis excisional biopsy 5/30/08
r segmental mast (partial) snb 6/4
node neg stage1 gr ll
er+/pr- Her2 - Oncotype Dx 11
R mast 9/22/08 w DIEP
tamox,now AI 
BRCA 1 & 2 NEG
davinci hyst/bso,