Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Cancer or Infection? How Can I Tell?

“My doctor says I have an infection, but when I Googled my symptoms, I saw that I have all the symptoms of inflammatory breast cancer .  Is my doctor wasting my time with an antibiotic?  Should I insist on a biopsy?”We frequently get variations on this question here at HealthCentral.  How can you tell whether you have an infection or a rare type of breast cancer called inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)?  The... read more..

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PET Scans: Seeing Your Body Cells at Work

When I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 1998, the first thing my doctors did was order a battery of tests to see if the cancer had spread.  The test they did NOT order was a PET scan.  Positron emission tomography (PET) was still very expensive and not easy to read. The machine that combined the PET scan with the CT scan went into clinical use at the University of Pittsburg in 1998.  Because it was so effective,... read more..

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Making Treatment Decisions When the Prognosis Is Not Good

One of the on-line groups I belong to is buzzing with indignation about an article, “Living Life In My Own Way—And Dying That Way As Well," by Amy Berman in HealthAffairs.  In the article, Berman describes her decision to skip chemotherapy, radiation and/or surgery as treatments for her Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer (IBC). No one in my group quibbles with Berman’s right to forego aggressive... read more..

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[Articles] Neoadjuvant bevacizumab, trastuzumab, and chemotherapy for primary inflammatory HER2-positive breast cancer (BEVERLY-2): an open-label, single-arm phase 2 study

Neoadjuvant treatment with bevacizumab, trastuzumab, and chemotherapy was efficacious and well tolerated in patients with previously untreated primary inflammatory breast cancer. Further confirmation of use of bevacizumab in inflammatory breast cancer is needed. (Source: The Lancet Oncology) read more..

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When Your Body Didn't Read the Textbook: Diagnosing Breast Conditions with Unusual Symptoms

A reader wrote in concerned that she might have inflammatory breast cancer (IBC).  Although she had three of the symptoms of IBC--redness, swelling, and warmth--her doctors were confident that she couldn't have IBC.  She did not have the characteristic skin dimpling of IBC, and only part of her breast was affected.  Yet five antibiotics had not diminished her symptoms.  Finally they decided to biopsy.The results were... read more..

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The Effects of Psychotherapy on Psychological Well-Being and Diurnal Cortisol Patterns in Breast Cancer Survivors

Psychother Psychosom 2012;81:173–182 (DOI:10.1159/000329178) (Source: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Have a look at The Breast Cancer Daily, the new breast cancer portal with all the latest breast cancer news and research powered by MedWorm, updated daily. read more..

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Susan Niebur and Her Indelible Marks

The members of the on-line support groups I belong to are in mourning.  Susan Niebur-- physicist, mother, wife, and writer-has died of inflammatory breast cancer almost five years after her diagnosis. Susan's cheerful smile is beloved by everyone who has been reading her blog Toddler Planet and following her journey as a mother and a cancer patient over the years.  I wrote about the ways she used writing to navigate cancer in a... read more..

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Inflammatory Breast Cancer-Bone Scan

Bone Scans: Seeing Your Skeleton

As I lay on the table and watched the big square pass slowly over my body, I shuddered at the thought of the radiation it must be emitting.  It was my first bone scan, scheduled to find out if my recently diagnosed inflammatory breast cancer had spread. “What kind of radiation is that putting into me?” I asked the technician. She looked at me with a funny expression on her face and hesitated before finally... read more..

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