ElsaG's Journey with Breast Cancer
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- 2 Procedure or Surgery Icon Procedure or Surgery
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- 6 Radiation Icon Radiation
- 7 Drug or Chemo Therapy Icon Drug or Chemo Therapy
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- 11 Celebration Icon Celebration
- 12 Radiation Icon Radiation
- 13 Side Effects Icon Side Effects
- 14 Other Care Icon Other Care
- 15 Other Care Icon Other Care
- 16 Loss Icon Loss
Survivor: Breast Cancer
Patient Info: Finished active treatment less than 5 years ago, Diagnosed: about 14 years ago, Female, Age: 74, Stage II, HER2 Positive: No, ER Positive: Yes, PR Positive: No
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Diagnosed
Oh No
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy
Procedure or Surgery
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Went away for an exteded weekend with my husband after successful surgery and before starting chemo treatments.
Celebration
It was important for my husband and I to go away and just regroup and enjoy each other after my surgery and knowing that the next months on chemo were not going to allow us that opportunity.
Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
Procedure or Surgery
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Lumpectomy
Procedure or Surgery
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External radiation
Radiation
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Chemotherapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
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Hair loss (alopecia)
Side Effects
On the advice of my oncologist I arranged to get a wig and get used to it before I started chemo. Sometime after the second treatment the hair started to fall out so I decided to have it shaved off and use my wig rather than experience the process of seeing it fall out gradually.
Chemo brain
Side Effects
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Fatigue (tiredness)
Side Effects
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Daughter's Graduate School Commencement
Celebration
With permission from my oncologist my last chemo treatment was postponed so that I could attend my daughter's commencement. This was a welcome respite!
External radiation
Radiation
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Lymphedema
Side Effects
While returning my my daughter's commencement my left arm swelled tremendously. It was very scary, it was the onset of lymphedema.
Began course of treatment with 3 years of Tamoxifen and 2 years of Arimidex
Other Care
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Physical therapy for lymphedema
Other Care
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Lost loved one
Loss
Shortly after I completed radiation in September of 2007, my Dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and we lost him the following January. He along with my Mom, husband and children were my rock during my treatments. While I was on chemo he would make various soups for me to help nourish me when I didn't want to eat at all.