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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

    Some exciting news today for us cancer patients...please check it out...

    "Liquid Biopsy"

    As an early-stager, I'd love to have this test to know if I am truly "cancer-free."  For later stages, it's a definite benefit to help doctors know quickly if a treatment is working.  I'm excited!

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    Elimar - Thanks for sharing the link.  I heard about this on the news this morning.  Gonna print it out and read it carefully later.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2011

    It won't work for me as I already know that I have Isolated Tumour Cells. The blood test would always be positive!

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited January 2011

    Barbe what kind of test was that? I really want this new blood test even if I have to fly down to boston for it.I see my rad onc this wed for a followup.He should know where we can get this new bloodtest.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2011

    Mum, the isolated tumour cells were part of the pathology on my breast tissue from the mastectomy. I had cancer cells away from the tumour iteself. Elimar has a link in her post above that is about circulating tumour cells - CTC's I suppose. I'm pretty sure if you test anyone they'll have some kind of cancer cell floating through their body.....

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011

    I did wonder about that, whether many people (even ones without a previous cancer Dx,) would show up positive with some circulating cells?  Will it lead to more people having to do chemo and will that be a good thing?  But the article did say that it might one day relace mammos and colonoscopies, so if they can screen the blood to that point of accuracy, I'd rather have a blood draw than either of those other two tests. 

    Maybe it "sounds too good to be true" and we all know what they say about that.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited January 2011

    I will be taking these articles with me on wed.Thankyou for the links Elimar.

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  • Claire82
    Claire82 Member Posts: 684
    edited January 2011

    Paula

    I couldn't shower until I got the drains out.

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  • phew
    phew Member Posts: 225
    edited January 2011

    j'all hear about the stude that will know from one blood draw if there is any cancer in the perso?  heard that on the news today ---an abc attiliate   dont rmrmber the source

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    I remember a few years ago there were scientists in the UK developing a "smart bra" that could sense temperature changes in your breasts related to breast cancer.  Guess that idea just fizzled.  At least people are trying to find different/better ways to detect BC.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    Watched the evening news about the blood test.  It was reported that there are always tumor cells circulating in the blood and aren't always bad or needing treatment.  The test is not available yet.

    NativeMainer -  I am just catching up on all the posts and wanted to respond to yours.  I started freaking out when the pain started up yesterday.  I had not done anything different than I had done in the last couple of months and all of a sudden - the girl is in pain.  Still have the pain today and it tends to move around.  I am due to see my MO on Wed and if it is still there I will let him know.  Right now everything seems to scare me and I hope in time that feeling will ease up or go away.  Thanks so much for the info.

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  • NativeMainer
    NativeMainer Member Posts: 10,462
    edited January 2011

    I laughed at the comment about how amazing a step ahead in cancer treatment this is!  This is not a treatment, it's a screening test.  Yes, it will help with treatment decisions, but it is not a treatment, no more than yearly mammograms are a preventative for bc.  I'm a tad skeptical since it is true that there are abnormal cells present in the body all the time, it's not labeled cancer until a cell gets past the immune system  and multiplies enough times to make a tumor.  But it will be a very valuable treatment monitoring aide. 

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    NativeMainer - I totally agree with you.

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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited January 2011

    Wow, Middies, I'm pages & pages behind.

    It is amazing to consider the forward progress in cancer research. I'm grateful for the link -- as I seldom listen to the news. Here's to wishes and hopes that it becomes a valuable tool, and as quickly as possible!!

    I LOVED seeing the handiwork projects of others on the THREAD (get it?? 'thread' LOL........ yes, I am easily entertained, I know!!!) I already knew Barbe's dirty little quilt-store-owner-secret. If we really, really beg, I know that she has at least one AMAZING photo of her own quilt-art-work. [I think maybe you shared it in the bunny-hutch of the nonHousework corner, Barbe.] Can you please find it again??? Pretty please????

    Here's a two page spread from my most recent picture book. I made the illustrations from fabric as small quilts. So for a 32 page picture book format, I made 16 small quilts.

    http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll28/faithandfifty/No6.jpg

    This one is based on my interpretation of the red-rocks of Sedona, Arizona...... though having just been in Utah last month, there's some similarity to the red-rocks of Utah and Zion National Park.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011
    faithandfifty - I make quilts and have posted some on here but yours is absolutely amazing.  What detail work, I love it.  You must share some more with us. Pretty, pretty please.
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  • faithandfifty
    faithandfifty Member Posts: 10,007
    edited January 2011

    The above 'quilt' was created thru a combination of traditional piecing, fusing and 'thread painting.'

    This one is the "end papers" of the book....... the pages inside the book when you first open it.

    It is machine pieced.

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011

    faithandfifty - AMAZING!  Meece got me motivated to get back to my quilts - now I am really psyched up.  Halfway through a quilt top now and just wanna get it done.  I already have plans for another one when this one is finished.  

    Quilting for me takes me to a calmer place - sort of like the old commercial for Calgon - "Calgon take me away".  I don't think about BC or any of the treatments.  Have told myself I need to do more.

    Thank you so much for sharing the pics 

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  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 8,543
    edited January 2011
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  • Kleenex
    Kleenex Member Posts: 764
    edited January 2011

    Oh my goodness! I'm something like 25 pages behind! I need to post a picture of myself so a visiting Booby Facebook Buddy can identify me, and I can't figure out how to paste a picture, so I temporarily have changed my "avatar." Hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and New Year's, and I will hopefully catch up and add something relevant soon! :)

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  • elimar86861
    elimar86861 Member Posts: 7,416
    edited January 2011
    Faith, You really know your way around the fabrics!!!  (And no, I did not make the quilt pictured at the top.  I just went with the quilting theme in honor of all the handiwork posted so far.)
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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    I want to come play in Faith's studio.  I can imagine it would be like Disneyland for a quilter!

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  • Eph3_12
    Eph3_12 Member Posts: 4,781
    edited January 2011

    Kleenex!  Hey girl!  Good to see you!

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  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 19,483
    edited January 2011

    Wow, kleenex, that is a real photo!

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  • cookiegal
    cookiegal Member Posts: 3,296
    edited January 2011

    Happy New Year Middies.

    I loved hearing about the special new years meals!! I love to really cook at the holidays, I get to do it so infrequently.  My new years eve tradition is eggs bacon and pancakes after a night of drinking. Tho I am quiet the timid tippler these days.

    I have discoverd the magic perfection formula for scrambled eggs if anyone is interested.

    I really hope for a good 2011 for us all.

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2011
    the quilta are so amazing. im jealous all of you have the strength and energy. but, for now, im living my life vicariously thru ya'll.!!     3jays
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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited January 2011

    Faith, beautiful quilts and Meece, the one at the top is lovely!

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  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited January 2011

    Hey Paula- Those drains drove me crazy and I ha my BS telling me it was ok to shower and my PS telling me no. I chose to listen to PS as he is a nut on infection and kept asking if I wanted to risk it. He reminded me that I had open holes in my body for the drains and that just invited infection. I chose not to shower. I was mad but I realized it was my choice-which is no small thing with all the crap we all go through with BC.

    What I did do and this sounds bizarre...I wore my drains pinned in a little loop on each end of a long scarf I wore around my neck---i made it shorter and sat in the tub in a small puddle of water that didn't even cover my butt. But it sure helped me MENTALLY. Awkward as hell, but man it was more soothing than pain pill. Kept the water well away from incisions, drain holes, etc. Until the drains and stitches came out I cleaned myself (and not very well!) the old PTA way with a warm washrag.

    BIG HUG!

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  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited January 2011

    The quilts are beautiful and I ENVY all of you with the gift of talent to make anything like that...I am inept when it comes to the skilled crafts....:)

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  • annettek
    annettek Member Posts: 1,640
    edited January 2011

    Thank you Elimar! I am going to see if I can get in on the clincial trial at MD Andersen-I am just outside of Houston. I will keep you guys posted with my progress.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited January 2011

    Annette, what is the PTA-way to clean yourself? I'm imagining all sorts of weird things, so please let me know.

    Faith PERFECT fabrics! Don't you just love being on the hunt and finding "it"? My store was those kinds of weird ones. I loved hearing ladies freaking out....rocks!!! water!!! sky!!!!

    My craft room would keep anyone amused for days. I'm a bead-a-holic, my stash of "things" is spectacular if I say so myself. It's not just fabric. Wall quilts embellished with beads and buttons and feathers and tactile objects....sigh....I LOVE it!

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