Canadians in British Columbia

On follow up mammogram:

How important it is to go back to the lab that did your diagnostic mammogram? I did mine at a private lab in North Van, my only ever mammogram in that location. They made mistake on the result, left breast vs, right breast so not high on my confidence. Then did my ultrasound guided biopsy at Lion's gate.

One of Rad oncologist said I should do all the mammogram at BCCA so they have good comparisons. Then another rad concologist said I should go back to either the private lab or the Lion's Gate since they have the historic scan.

Will BCCA bother to look at it if I am able to get them a digital copy of historic scan?

How are you ladies managing your follow up mammograms?

Yay Moth, NVDobie, Walden, MarianElizabeth, Koshka, Wrenn and hopefully Ossa! That makes eight of us so far.

We have room for more - if you haven't already done so, let me know if you can join us!

1:00 pm Saturday Nov. 24, Cactus Club, Broadway and Ash

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DearLife (Pearl)

Hi, just saw this today, would be interested in meeting up with the group again on the 24th, if too late for reservations could my name be added to a wait list?

Kathryn (in Coq

hi, both Ase and I are attending...,,,,

Same! I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for organizing it

I am pretty sure Stacey, Can’t remember her Bcaa name, will want to come. As you know I am away in Europe and I’m trying to get a hold of her but please add her for now and I will let you know ASAP if she will in fact be able to come. She has come to all the others so I feel that she will want to be with us.

Maria

Thanks Pearl!

Yep I will bring name tags!

Good idea to make a list. I will look for the Dobie at the door 🙂!

Thanks Marian. I went to the restaurant today to see where we will be sitting and asked for the quieter area at the back. But maybe we will be the noisy ones!

Here is the list of who I think is coming. Please let me know if there are any changes:

Wrenn

Koshka

MarianElizabeth

Walden

Ossa

NVDobie

Moth

Pots

Kathy044

Ase (with Kathy)

BlueSky

Van2018

DearLife

I will post another reminder closer to the day but here are the details of our lunch:

1:00 pm Saturday November 24

Cactus Club, Broadway and Ash

It’s very close to the Broadway and Cambie Canada Line station. The restaurant says “there is always parking on Ash” and there may be parking on Broadway since it is not a weekday. Bring loonies for the meters.

One thing to note - because we are more than 10 people, there is an automatic 18.5% gratuity added to each individual bill. So the tip is already included.

The tables are reserved in my name - Pearl. (I didn’t want to tell them my first name was Dear 😃.)

It will be so great to meet in person!

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Pearl

Thanks Pearl, I'mlooking forward to meeting all of you. Putting names with faces will be fun.

Oh yay we are twelve and will fit nicely into two booths with no one at the end.

Ossa/Ase I am glad you can make it 👍😃👍.

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Pearl

We will see you when you get there MarianElizabeth! Thanks for making the trip to see us from Victoria.

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I M sorry I did not make it I was vomiting all day so would not have been good company will make the next one

I know you would all have had a great time

Great to meet you all on Saturday. Just wanted to share this info from ASCO, as a lot of us seemed to be discussing hormone therapy options: http://www.ascopost.com/News/58912. I think it gives some guidance on who benefits from the various options. Hope you find it useful.

I meant to ask at lunch if anyone has been advised to do 10 years of tamoxifen? If so, do you know if BCCA is ordering the oncotest that is designed to look at the benefits of extending therapy beyond 5 years?