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It explores the history of breast cancer from 490 BC to the present.
The story is told of the brave women who had the disease throughout time and how they dealt with having breast cancer.
Abigail Adams, Shirley Temple Black, Rachel Carson, Linda Ellerbee, Betty Rollin, Sandra Day O'Connor, Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford, Julia Child, Peggy Fleming, Jill Ireland, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Gloria Steinheim are just a few of the courageous women whose stories are mentioned in this book.
The book is a fascinating read, and at times the treatments used sound barbaric until they were perfected over the years, but someone had to be the first one these "new" treatments were tried on.
I highly recommend this book as an educational, interesting, awesome insight into this disease that has been around for over two thousand years!
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What does mom want? Personally I would advise that you discuss a UMX vs. a BMX with the surgeon and your mom present. Then take mom's wishes into consideration with what the surgeon says are the pros and cons of doing each procedure on a patient your mom's age.
Let us know how this all turns out.
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Thanks for such a super, inclusive list. It can be used for anybody who has had surgery or is sick - not just for cancer patients!
You are wonderful to take the time to put it all together for us!
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BSGI is another diagnostic tool that can detect invasive and non-invasive breast cancers to sizes below 5-10mm. In fact, BSGI may be able to help diagnose abnormalities seen on ultrasound and MRI. Due to that capability it is a very useful tool for women with dense breast tissue.
BSGI uses a special camera, that can take images of the breast without using compression. A tracing agent is injected which usually accumulates in cancer cells (if present) to a much greater degree than in normal cells. The tracing agent gives off invisible rays, that the camera is able to pick up.
The National Institutes of Health has categorized the radiation dose from BSGI as the same as mammography and appropriate for a diagnostic exam.
If you go to www.breastcancer.org you will read that this tool is still experimental.
However if you have been told that you have dense breast tissue and an ultrasound has not been definitive in diagnosing you, you might want to find out where you can have BSGI dome in your area.
For more information about dense breast tissue you might want to check out the following website www.areyoudense.orgView Thread

https://www.pcip.gov
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Their general website is http://www.cancer.gov
The breast cancer website is http://.www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast
They also have a toll free number with people availabe to do the research for you and answer your questions. That phone number is 1-800-4-cancer.
The website also has the ability for you to chat with a counselor online.View Thread

So happy to hear such good news from you. Glad you found a medication you can tolerate that stops the hot flashes you were having. Hopefully this will help other ladies as well.
JudyView Thread

Usually Femera is given to post-menopausal women, while Tamoxifen is generally given to pre-menopausal women.
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The greater the number of blood relatives who have or had breast cancer the higher is your % chance of developing breast cancer.
The next thing to consider is what would you do if you test positive? Are you mentally prepared for that outcome?
I would suggest that you decide what you would do if you test positive and then when you come to a decision about that you can be tested if you want to. Or you could just be vigilant about doing self exams and having mammo, MRI every 6 months since you are probably in a high risk category and insurance would then pay for a mammo every 6 months.
It's a difficult decision, but one that you need to make and have no regrets later on based on that decision.
I wish you good luck and please let us know what you decide.
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