Monday, October 1, 2012

Does everyone with breast cancer receive a bone scan

Does everyone with breast cancer receive a bone scan?
For everyone who has had breast cancer, when you were first diagnosed with breast cancer did your doctors have you to take a bone scan? Is it necessary for a person who has been newly diagnosed with breast cancer to have a bone scan?
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If you have a good doctor they will order this. This is to see if there are other cancers and will determine the course of treatment. It is VERY important.
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I believe it is a normal protocol, when someone is diagnosed with any type of cancer to have a bone scan to determine if the cancer has already spread. I had a bone scan. MRIs and ultrasound to determine if other "abnormalities" that showed up on the scan were anything serious. I have lots of cysts but the cancer was only in the breast and 3 lymph nodes.
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In the UK it depends on the protocol of the hospital treating you. I had stage 3 grade 3 breast cancer, and it was never suggested I had a bone scan. Talking later to other women who'd had breast cancer, I found out it's routine for many or most hospitals to arrange a bone scan if breast cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. My first ever bone scan was almost 5 years after diagnosis when I was experiencing pain in my ribs and hip. I think it's a sensible precaution to offer newly diagnosed breast stage 3 breast cancer patients a bone scan.
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Unless you are diagnosed with DCIS or LCIS it is standard procedure to have a bone scan.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Where can someone who is addicted to prescription narcotics due to breast cancer get help

Where can someone who is addicted to prescription narcotics due to breast cancer get help?
WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING BREAST CANCER FOR 3 YEARS. AFTER A MASTECTOMY ,CHEMOTHERAPY,RADIATION THERAPY,A CRANIOTOMY AND MORE RADIATION THERAPY SHE IS IN REMISSION. NOW SHE CAN'T GET BACK ON HER FEET DUE TO THE PRESCRIPTION NARCOTICS. DOCTORS AT 2 DIFFERENT HOSPITALS WOULD NOT TAKE HER INTO THEIR PSYCH WARD EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS LOST OVER 40 LBS. IN 2 MONTHS. SHE REFUSES TO EAT BECAUSE SHE HAS NO APPETITE. MY INSURANCE DOESN'T COVER REHABS. ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Cancer - 2 Answers
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Try contacting your local AA or NA center. I know your circumstances are different but I am quite sure someone there can help. Also try a cancer support group. I am sure someone there will also be able to help. If i can be of any help to you locating such places please e-mail me. Best wishes and you family are in my prayers.
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Maybe you can call her doctor (the one that wrote the presciptions) and tell him whats going on. My friends dad is riddled with cancer and unforitionally hes not going to beat the cancer, but at any rate they had to change his medications around for pain because he was going threw symptoms like this, I cant tell you what he was on or what he was switched to, but hes in cronic pain all the time and he has to be on pain medication, they just tinkered with his medication untill they found a combonation that worked for him so he could live the best life possible while hes here :) *HUGS*

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Can someone provide me links about government funding for breast cancer as opposed to prostate cancer

Can someone provide me links about government funding for breast cancer as opposed to prostate cancer?
I would like to know the differences between the funding from the federal government (especially during the very beginning of both movements) to these charities. I am quite sure that breast cancer research has always been given much higher funding from the federal government but I am curious as to whether or not the unequal funding for breast cancer research foundations (in comparison to prostate cancer foundations) is what directly caused the mass awareness of breast cancer and the general neglect of prostate cancer.
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Suggest that you read the history of breast cancer awareness and try to understand the social ramifications that fueled the priority for breast cancer research . . it is obvious you are too young to remember the events that led up to the 'war on cancer declared in 1971' and the womens liberation movement during that time period.
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No one here is going to do research for you. If it is that important to you, you will do it. No government started the â€œmass awareness of breast cancerâ€� that was done by everyday men and women who were sick and tired of people, mostly women, who were dying of the disease. How do you figure there has been a general neglect of prostate cancer? The use of PSA for early detection was started in the 1990s. The use of robots to do prostatectomies began in the last 10 years. A vaccine for advanced prostate cancer was approved by the FDA this year. Do you really believe every cancer should be funded equally? Do you believe only women die from breast cancer?

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