Christa's Journey with Invasive (Infiltrating) Ductal Carcin...
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Survivor: Breast Cancer > Invasive (Infiltrating) Ductal Carcinoma
Patient Info: Finished active treatment less than 5 years ago, Diagnosed: about 10 years ago, Female, Age: 46, Stage II, HER2 Positive: Yes, ER Positive: Don't Know, PR Positive: Don't Know
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Found a lump!
Oh No
Found a lump during my monthly self breast exam. Went to FP just to be safe and she sent me that day to St. Vincent's for testing.
Biopsy
Procedure or Surgery
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Diagnosed
Oh No
Learned it was cancer at age 36 and my husband and I had not started our family yet. Very scared as I have no family history.
Surgery Type
Decision Point
Decide to do lumpectomy instead of bilateral mastectomy against advice of my ONC and surgeon.
Implant chemotherapy port
Procedure or Surgery
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Lumpectomy
Procedure or Surgery
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Margins not clean!
Oh No
Surgery not successful. Margins not clean.
Surgery Type
Decision Point
Doctors again strongly urged me to have both breasts removed. I was not willing at that time and elected another lumpectomy procedure.
Lumpectomy
Procedure or Surgery
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More cancer found without clean margins!!!
Oh No
More cancer found that was not picked up on any test, even the MRI. Again there was not clean margins so all of the cancer was not removed.
Chemotherapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
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Hair loss (alopecia)
Side Effects
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Hot flashes
Side Effects
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Mouth sores
Side Effects
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Taste change/loss
Side Effects
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Weight gain
Side Effects
20 lbs
End of chemo
Celebration
still have to take Herceptin
Chemotherapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
Herceptin only for one year every three weeks
Tropical vacation
Celebration
Finished my hard chemo and took a nice vacation to recover. Now it is just Herceptin every three weeks.
Hormone therapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
Fatigue, hot flashes and body odor. Also mood issues.
Double Mastectomy
Procedure or Surgery
Off 3 weeks and had a hard time.
Expander placement
Procedure or Surgery
This part hurt bad. The fills were worse.
Fills- Implant
Procedure or Surgery
The filling of the expanders was very painfull and caused me great anxiety. This had to be done every other week for months until the chest muscles were expanded enough for the implants to be placed. It was like having a brace on that cannot be removed no matter how much it is bothering you. It felt like no one could understand why I was having a hard time with the expansion but it feels to me that I cannot have been the only one. Perhaps because I am narrow built in the shoulders? Glad it is over.
Breast Reconstruction (Implant)
Procedure or Surgery
Final implants
Port removed
Procedure or Surgery
Removed
Chemo brain
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Fatigue (tiredness)
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Mood changes
Side Effects
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Nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy)
Side Effects
In feet. It only lasted a few months.
Other
Side Effects
Bad body odor that started with hormonal chemo
Hair is back
Celebration
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