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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2004 Nov. - 2005 Jan.: Health Center (ARCHIVES): Breast Cancer users admin

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Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Saturday, September 04, 2004 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I got this in an email and thought I would pass it along....



It would be wonderful if 2004 were the year a cure for breast cancer were found!!!! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful!

As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our mothers, sisters and friends.

Instead of the routine 37 cents for a stamp, this one costs 40 cents. The additional 3 cents will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research.

Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care. I would urge you to do two things TODAY:

1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps.

2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the additional 60 cents th new book costs.


Please help &pass this on.



Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 7:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A petition is being gathered to submit to Congress for an end to drive-through mastectomies in the United States. If you are interested, you can find the petition here: Lifetime TV for women petition

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
End drive-through mastectomies in the United States petition

Sorry about the first link...it was a thank you for my signature. This one should take you to the pledge itself!

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Wednesday, November 24, 2004 - 9:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was just watching a tape of Jane Pauley's show that was on early in the week. Her guest was Olivia Newton-John. She mentioned the Liv Kit, which she is promoting, to help people with their breast exams. It is described as "a magnifying glass for the fingers", making it much easier to feel any lumps, even those small as grains of salt. It looks like a soft plastic filled with a gel-like substance. Doctors have used them since the mid-80s and they are now being sold to the public. I looked at some of the links and found it at Target.com for $19.99. I'll post some links here, in case anyone is interested.

Livkit.com

target.com

I have no affiliation or association with this product or these companies or their websites. I haven't tried the product yet, so I can't recommend it. I just thought the information was worth sharing. It sounds like a useful detection aid to me.

Hypermom
Member

08-13-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This isn't on topic, but has anyone had to go in for two mammograms? I had my first one last week. The tech said they may call back to have me have another because I didn't have a baseline for them to go by and to not be concerned if they did. They called yesterday. The radiologist's reported calcification in both breasts with two calcification nodules with some density in one breast. I'm going back in today for another mammogram. They also mentioned the possibility of an ultrasound. I'm freaking out...should I be?

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 10:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hi hyper,

the first time i had my baseline mammo(at 40) they told me the same thing and ended up having more xrays and an ultrasound--then a needle biopsy--while it is scary it ended up being nothing but a fibroid adenoma--now everytime i do a maamo they find more of the same--but i'd rather check then be sorry.. :-)

Hypermom
Member

08-13-2001

Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 10:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Nancy! I'm trying not to let my paranoia rule today.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hyper, What was the results of your additional mammograms? It is not at all unusual to be called back for additional views and possibly an ultrasound. I am 58 and have been getting at least annual mammos since my early 40s. I have had a problem also with suspicious microcalcification clusters (as the radiologist sometimes labels them) over the years. So far I've had four biopsies. In November '02 I was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ -- best kind of breast cancer you can get. Two years later it's behind me.

If a biopsy is necessary, remember that 80 percent of all biopsies result in benign conditions. I would not worry too much. Just be sure to get your annual mammos.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LADIES!!!!!!!!!! Please go in for your routine mammograms! My aunt went in for her annual routine mammogram and they found a suspicious lump that only showed on mammogram that today we found out was malignant but thankfully had not spread to any lymph nodes. If it hadn't been for the mammogram, who knows when they would have caught it.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 10:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the important reminder, Texannie. Mine is scheduled for 1/19. <hanging my head as I say I didn't get around to having one last year.>

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My doctor has been ordering a mammogram for the last few years at my yearly exam. Not looking forward to that boob crusher, but a girl gotta do what a girl gotta do. Besides, Unit told Mocha to shoot in the chest; I think I'd rather get 'em crushed.m

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mom went in the other day cuz she found a lump. Mommogram is schedule for sometimes in the next few weeks. No one is too worried yet, as she's pretty good about check ups and yearly exams, and hasn't been even a year since the last one. She's been having them for years and almost everytime they find something they want to doublecheck. It's just too soon to worry. Can't help being a little scared though.

So seconding Texannie go get those yearly mammograms and don't forget to do the monthly self exams!



Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, don't forget the self exams. I have found doing them in the shower with a little soap and water on the first day of each month helps me.

Hypermom
Member

08-13-2001

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Color, the two lumps found on my right breast were a cyst and a lymph node. I'll have another mammo in 6 months for that. The problem I have now is, some microcalcifications on my left breast. I met the surgeon yesterday, and on Thursday, I'm going to have a biopsy done. They are so tiny that the radiologist will pinpoint them with a needle and then the surgeon will go in for tissue samples. Neither think it's cancer...usually 10% come back positive, but since I'm at a marked risk because of the cancer my son had, they're being cautious. The surgeon told me that if it is, it's been caught at a very early stage. The surgeon will call me on Monday with the results.

ETA: I should have read through your whole message before replying. lol Thanks for the info.