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Avatar n tn Lymph nodes clear. After surgery had mammosite. Should I do hormone therapy? I also had ovarian cancer 2 yrs. ago. Stage 1A also. Doing well here. Took chemo for OV. and left me with aching legs and joints. The hormone therapy has so many side affects. The drugs suggested for me are Arimidex or Raloxifene. Is there anyone that does not take hormone therapy and is still doing well with no recurrance?
Avatar f tn I am 74 years old and have been on Hormone Therapy for 24 years. My new doctor had advised me that she will not continue my prescription because she in uncomfortable to prescribe to a woman over 65 years of age. I think that is my decision to make.
Avatar n tn I was diagnosed at age 49 in May, 2007 with Stage II, 3 nodes positive. I had 4 rounds of A/C and 4 rounds of Taxol followed by 33 rounds of radiation. My doctor now wants to put me on hormone therapy. I am premenopausal but haven't gotten my period since July due to chemo. She won't put me on Tamoxifin because of a past history of TIA several years ago. She said I would be at too high a risk for stroke on it.
Avatar f tn I have been told from the start that with a lumpectomy I would need radiation. I found out later about the hormone therapy. I want to know if this is standard of care for my situation. I had a 1cm lump including DCIS and ILC. My margins were 6mm, 1cm, 5cm, 6cm. The ILC was in a linear pattern and low nuclear grade. 4 of 4 nodes were negative for cancer. I am ER+ 100% and PR+ 90%. I am HER2 negative. I was told my cancer was caught very early and I should be OK.
Avatar m tn Hi sorry hormone therapy will not help at all , there are no pills or cream to make your penis any bigger , take care ,
Avatar m tn Biopsies of the prostate came back positive for the more serious type of cancer. He will begin hormone therapy soon. Since the nephrostomy he has been in a great deal of pain. He now has a strong pain med to take 4 times a day. This is a man who had 60% of his liver removed and, once he was in control of his pain meds, didn’t use anything but Tylenol! The urologist says that his prostate cancer often has “bone issues” and he wants him to go for a bone scan.
Avatar n tn The classic thinking is that estrogen replacement therapy does not stimulate the growth of most ovarian cancers. There is mixed information in the literature. Most recently, the women's health initiative (WHI) study does suggest that ERT may be associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer (note this is estrogen plus progesterone, there is no reported increase with estrogen by itself in WHI study).
Avatar f tn Treatments that would not be used are the hormone therapies that would be used to treat hormone receptive cancers. Regarding HER2 status if positive there are medications that target the receptor which might be used in conjunction with chemotherapy, if HER2 negative these medications would not be used. The medical oncologist would discuss the regimen best suited to you based on evaluation of the entire situation.
Avatar n tn My nodes were negative and tumor size 0.8 cm with clean margins on lumpectomy. What about hormone therapy? I no longer have my ovaries. Hx of cervical cancer at 27 treated with hysterectomy and last ovary removed 10 yrs ago for benign cyst.
Avatar f tn Hi I read your last post and it asked about hormone replacement therapy , this is a different thing from hormone blocker pills as hormone replacement is just what it says it replaces the hormones lost after menopause and I believe that blockers are used to treat women that have hormone dependant cancers in that they block the hormones made in the body that feed the cancer .
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Avatar n tn I had breast cancer in my right breast 7 yrs. ago, had a lumpectomy, & had chemo. & radiation therapy for that. I couldn't follow up with Temoxaphen because of negative receptors. Cancer was found in my left breast now, so I had a bilateral mastectomy and no cancer cells were found other than in the new cancer site when pathology was done on the removed tissue and nodes. this cancer had positive estrogen receptors. The diagnosis is good and was rated as a "0".
Avatar m tn Thank you for your question. Nearly all prostate cancers become resistant to hormone therapy after a few months or years of treatment. In short, hormone therapies should be reevaluated after the PSA starts to rise. If you are currently taking bicalutamide you could switch to flutamide or nilutamide. The next step may be to move to secondary therapy ketoconazole. It is important to continue to watch the PSA along with imagining to monitor bone activity.
Avatar f tn There are a lot of studies that show a correlation between breast and thyroid cancers. They are both hormone fed cancers too. Just like there is a correlation between thyroid problems and PCOS (just a few of my issues) Bone pain is another issue. Those who on high levels of thyroid replacement meds, are post menopausal, and are not on hormone replacement therapy lose large amount of bone mass. That's why bone density studies are so important (and Calcium with vitamin D) for us.
1162347 tn?1293503170 If my breast specialist and chemotherapist say I can have chemo + radiation without health risks will I still need the Hormone Therapy meds? I need your help + an answer in order to discuss the subject with my Oncology Team this coming Tuesday afternoon, please help me. Thanks in advance for your help.
341137 tn?1287305043 You will need to discuss the treatment options with your doctor - Lumpectomy or mastectomy - depending on extent and size of tumour, radiation therapy - especially in cases with high grade or associated necrosis; hormone therapy - if the tumour is hormone receptor positive. Do let us know what your doctor advises and keep us posted on how you are doing. Hope this helps. Good luck.
Avatar f tn menopause, assuming you were premenopausal at the time of your surgery. If you took hormone replacement therapy after your surgery, that would have put off the inevitable until such time as you discontinued the hormones or the dosage was reduced enough to allow menopause symptoms to break through. I've noticed myself that especially at times of stress the hot flashes can tend to recur.
Avatar n tn Treatments that would not be used are the hormone therapies that would be used to treat hormone receptive cancers or medications like Herceptin or lapatinib which target the HER2 receptor. The medical oncologist will discuss the chemotherapy regimen best suited to your mother based on their evaluation of the entire situation.
Avatar m tn These hormones are very important for normal functioning of our body and if there is a deficiency of these hormones it is important to take hormone replacement therapy to overcome this deficiency. Please relax HRT will not damage your brain but is essential at the moment for you.