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Can Breast Cancer return in a Reconstructed Breast?
Some women are scared to consider breast reconstruction after a mastectomy because they think it will increase the risk of the breast cancer coming back. This is a common misconception. Thankfully, it's not the case.
Breast cancer can come back even after a mastectomy. However, the risk of recurrence after a mastectomy is very low and is the same whether you have breast reconstruction or not.
When the patient's own tissue is used for the reconstruction (as in a "flap" procedure), only skin, fat, and/or muscle are used. This tissue is used to replace breast tissue and feels like a breast, but it never turns into rea...
Source: Breast Cancer Reconstruction Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: breast reconstruction breast cancer reconstructed breast breast cancer recurrence Source Type: blogs
Dr. Len Says: When It Comes To Skin Cancer, Do As I Say, Not As I Do
So May is skin cancer awareness month. No time like the present to come out with the news: I have been diagnosed with skin cancer.
There really isn't much special about that, since it is a distinction I share with over 2 million Americans who have a skin cancer removed every year. Fortunately, for most, it is a cancer that is not of particular concern since most can be removed. But even those "simple" surgeries--as I have learned from my own experience--can be a bit problematic.
Occasionally it helps to find some humor in difficult situations, and this is one of those times. And since I am generally pretty open about what ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - May 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Environment Other cancers Prevention Screening Treatment Source Type: blogs
Being social can help breast cancer outcomes
So even if you feel like crap from chemo and want nothing but to sit in a corner and stare vacantly out the window, be social. A new study (because all those researchers need to keep busy) recently found that women with breast cancer who are social - have better social and community ties - have better outcomes and handle the disease and side effects better. What did I do at my diagnosis? I started a blog, then joined two in person support groups, joined Twitter, then cancer message boards, then Crazy Sexy Cancer, then Facebook, then so many other online communities I can no longer remember them, never mind keep up wi...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 14, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: coping breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Relay for life honor those who have had cancer
Have you ever looked at the cancer walks/rides/races and thoughtThere is no way I could raise that much moneyI physically can't do thatI think all that pink stuff is just awful Honestly I'm lazy and not up for thatWell there is an option for you. The American Cancer Society's Relay for Life takes place across the country in thousands of cities and towns. I don't think they have much of a minimum donation but ask that people raise about $100 (I could be wrong here but it is a small amount). If you have had cancer, you can participate by attending and walking an honorary lap and have a delicious meal. And its free. At the ve...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 19, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer support cancer bonds Relay for Life Source Type: blogs
A Workout a Day Keeps The Cancer Cooties Away.
Maybe an apple a day too. When I was in treatment for breast cancer, I would go for a daily walk, every day unless hospitalized. It helped with destressing, medication side effects, and I really liked getting outside and stepping away from the doom and gloom. No one ever told me not to walk. The nurses and doctors all thought it was great.Since then I have had to join a gym for dilapidated people where there are physical therapists and all sorts of people to help us do things like stand on one foot without falling over. I'm not kidding. I no longer exercise every day because I can't. I need a day off between working ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - May 23, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer risk walking exercise Source Type: blogs
Thyroid cancer facts
The Huffington Post brings us Thyroid Cancer: The Five Things You Really Need to Know. One little factoid jumps out: UP 274 percent since 1997. That would make it the fastest growing cancer in the country. But it affects a relatively insignificant number of people - around 60,000 this year - so it doesn't get a lot of attention.Number one to know is it is not the good cancer. There is no good cancer. The term is derogatory and misleading.Number two is that taking a pill every day is not that easy. You need to replace the vital thyroid hormone but if they give you too much you will be hyper and if they give you too li...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer information normal thyroid cancer scars Source Type: blogs
Cancer is cancer
This is a very interesting video on thyroid cancer and the stigma of having it.Here's the premise: You are told you have thyroid cancer, you are told its the 'good' cancer and you will be fine. Then it turns nasty, and you feel like you were mislead and go through the whole cancer roller coaster. And you are being treated by an endocrinologist who may not have all the psycho-social support services available in the oncology department. Its the crazy cancer roller coaster.Let's take it another step.You are diagnosed with any type of cancer, early stage, and your doctors think you will be okay. You are on the cancer roller c...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis support medical roller coaster Source Type: blogs
The other half of having cancer
I have touched upon this before but the other half of having cancer, or any ailment, is the impact on the patient's partner or spouse. Somehow that gets skipped. The spouse sometimes becomes the silent partner without support in a cancer journey.I know dozens of people with cancer and other ailments - either in person or online - and each handle it differently.Since we got married eight years ago, I have had five surgeries, numerous procedures, and other medical adventures and been diagnosed with breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia as well as degenerating disks, gall stones, and I can't remember everythin...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 28, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer support cancer diagnosis loneliness husband sharing Source Type: blogs
Optimism in the face of cancer
When one is diagnosed with cancer, all sorts of things flash in our brains - rail thin bald people, iv poles, scars, doctors, hospitals, hospices. All sorts of things loom in our future - medical tests, things that pinch, chemotherapy, and ugly hospital gowns with a draft in the back.One of the key players in any cancer journey is the oncologist. Oncologists provide hope, direction, leadership and optimism. They offer treatment protocols to heal us, they provide solutions to treatment side effects, they provide answers to our questions.They do offer optimism as I said. I read this article on an oncologist and his views of ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 16, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis cancer treatment optimism oncologist Source Type: blogs
Lets redefine cancer
The question has arisen as to how to redefine cancer. A scientific panel states we are using a 19th century definition in the 21st century. The issue is should some precancerous conditions be redefined with out the use of the words cancer or carcinoma."In one example, they say that some premalignant conditions, such as one that affects the breast called ductal carcinoma in situ — which many doctors agree is not cancer — should be renamed to exclude the word carcinoma. That way, patients are less frightened and less likely to seek what may be unneeded and potentially harmful treatments that can include the surgical...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 30, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer diagnosis Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer – Big Deal
For those of us who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, it is a big deal. For people whose loved ones have been impacted by the disease, breast cancer is still a big deal. What I wonder about though, is how big a deal breast cancer is now that it has been in the forefront for so long.
I am hearing less about events like the Susan G. Komen three day walk, or the American Cancer Society’s fund raising events then I did last year at this time. The hoopla seems to have lessened as perhaps has the interest. I don’t blame people for losing interest in the effort to banish breast cancer and help those afflicted by it. W...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - August 5, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Continuing the Discussion on Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
A few months ago, Angelina Jolie revealed that she had made the difficult decision to remove her breasts to combat the risk of familial breast cancer. We haven’t heard much about it since – Angelina has moved on. That’s how it should be. The wonderful thing about having access to genetic testing for breast cancer is that the risk of breast cancer is determined early when it can be addressed and life can go on.
I get a lot of emails and calls from women asking if they should get tested for the BRCA 1 or 2 genetic mutations for breast cancer. They have family members that were diagnosed and many of them have lost a m...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - August 13, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Geographic variances in breast cancer
Recently a new strain of triple negative breast cancer was found in Ghanian women. This is a strain that is not found elsewhere. The result - a new treatment needs to be developed.It is a fact that different groups - ethnic and racial - are diagnosed with different diseases or types of diseases at different rates. For example Ashkenazi Jewish women develop breast cancer at a higher rate than other women. But I have never heard of a new variant of cancer being diagnosed by geographic area.This opens a whole new direction for cancer research. Women from different parts of the world could be influenced by their local ge...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 25, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer cancer research Source Type: blogs
New Breast Cancer Guidelines
The St Gallen International Breast Cancer Guidelines were recently updated to include the Oncotype DX test for breast cancer as the only screening tool for women with early stage ER+/Her2- breast cancer to determine the benefit of chemotherapy.On some levels this is great news but again it is not for all women. The criteria for the Oncotype DX test for breast cancer are:"You may be a candidate for the Oncotype DX breast cancer test if you are medically eligible for chemotherapy and:You have been diagnosed with stage I,II or IIIa invasive breast cancer.* Your breast cancer is estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) and Human Epide...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - August 23, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: chemotherapy testing breast cancer treatment Source Type: blogs
Blogging About Breast Cancer – A New Therapy?
It has been a tough year with my mom passing away in June and recently another member of the family has had serious health problems. It has helped me a lot to share thoughts and feelings with friends and family through social media while I was dealing with the loss of my mom and now this recent development. The more people I talk to about tweeting and face book, the more I realize how supportive social media can be. Blogging about breast cancer can be therapy.
I benefitted all these years from blogging about my experience with breast cancer. I definitely find that sharing openly on the web helps keeps me sane about my th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - August 27, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer blogging breast cancer therapy social media Source Type: blogs
