Robin Roberts
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Thanks, Bugs for the explanation.
I can understand why she wouldn't want to share everything.
I do know I read a few quotes from her that said it was caught "very early".
I guess she will share when she wants to (or not).
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I think that designating the status of one's cancer as 'caught early' is somewhat relative and open to individual interpretation. I have always been told that mine was caught early, but I had a 1.8cm IDC with some DCIS (ER+/PR+/Her2-) and had chemo, lumpectomy and rads. So it's certainly possible that Robin's was 'caught very early'....as opposed to later/late/too late, etc. It's almost a matter of semantics, don't you think?
As for the bacon issue (besides my first reaction....eeeeewwwwww!), I did crave salty and sour foods during chemo, as well as very spicy foods. Obviously, I was one of the lucky ones who had no stomach problems!
And finally, I thought that Robin looked great this morning and she did many of the main interviews. It made me wonder if that was intentional in order to be allowed to keep her mind off of today's first infusion. She was wearing a pretty peach/apricot color too....different from her usual, recent neutrals. Just an observation..
~Marin
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Wouldn't it be great if GMA and Robin had a little time during each morning segment where she would read questions and comments from BC survivors. Us! And anyone who would want to write in.
It would bring so much focus and realityto BC treatment. while she is going through it while on national TV. Just a thought.
I am hoping Robin has friends who are not GMA doctors etc. that have experienced BC and will let her know that everyone is different and responds differently to treatment, emotions, and that chemo is not always a walk in the park. Far from it in most cases.
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I was talking to my sister today and she asked in Robin had breast cancer.....she never saw any of the shows. I told her that she did...and that she was going to be getting chemo. I also mentioned the Hooter topic....and she was amazed that the producers of the show would not have seen the connection....but hey....we have had threads here started on the stupid things people have said....and I told my sister it doesn't surprise me. Then I mentioned to my sister that I wish when they say BREAST CANCER.....they would go more into the subject and discuss the various types of breast cancer that is out there. When they don't do that.......people just assume there is one kind of breast cancer....unless you are already informed by self education or by having a family member with breast cancer and you received your education from them. I know I was not TOTALLY aware of all the various forms of breast cancer that is out there.....but became more self educated along my journey.
Love,
Terry -
The hooter thing didn't bother me, what bothered me when I was going through cancer was when people felt like they had to walk on eggshells around me. That made me feel sicker and more "different". I just wanted people to treat me the way they had before cancer.
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It was interesting, Terry, that when Robin was discussing her chemo the other day, she did point out that there are different types of BC and that the particular type determined the tx and whether chemo would be part of it. She concluded by saying that her type meant she needed chemo. The distinction was probably an eye-opener for the uninitiated public.
I want to add that I respect Robin's taking time off from GMA this week to allow her body to respond to her first infusion. Hopefully, she'll be as lucky as I was and have no reaction at all, but at least she's taking good care of herself. I recall the afternoon after my first tx....I spent the whole time just waiting to be consumed by an episode of violent, projectile vomiting (what did I know?!) and I didn't eat a thing. By evening, I got tired of waiting and just pigged-out!
~Marin
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Hi ALL:
From an update on Access Atlanta, on 9/20/07, according to Rodney Ho, Robin was having chemotherapy yesterday, @ 12:30pm; she will be doing chemo through February 2008. Followed by a round of radiation therapy, they didn't specify how long. From what I could google, it looks like she has stage II, grade 3; 0/15 lymph nodes; er/pr/her +++.
Dee
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Well, guessing she will be doing segments on the benefits of Herceptin. I am so glad I finished my Herceptin treatment. The Herceptin company even sent me a charm bracelet, its very nice, with a heart for a charm and on the heart is the bc ribbon. The letter said "congratulations on your accomplishment" and it was rather nice. I am impressed.
I wish her sanity and a strong tummy right now.
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JazzD, how did you get that much detailed information from google. I was trying to find out more info on the details of her bc after I heard her say she had the type which responds to chemo. I thought maybe she was ER/PR negative after I heard her say that. It seemed like she was keeping the details close hold which is totally understandable.
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I feel sorry for RR. Now she has to go through this journey in the pubic eye. Everyone watching her, what she does, how she feels.
Wish she could have some privacy to get through this journey - where every step isnt being viewed by the pubic eye.
Im glad Im not a celebrity. I couldnt handle it.
Nicki
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Nicki, I agree with your sentiments. I would absolutely HATE it to have everyone discussing me and knowing my business, and I realize it's human nature for us to be interested (hey, I'm reading this thread!) so that's why I've told no one except maybe 3 people. It's hard to say how RR feels about all this. When you are in the public eye, it's hard to conceal anything. You have to take the good with the bad, I guess.
Tina
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My tumor was small (just under 1.5 cm) and caught early, yet it showed a High Proliferation Rate, and was HER-2 +++ positive (which again is a more aggressive form). So I had lumpectomy, Mammosite radiation, then chemo and it was AC, 4 dose dense treatments ... 2 weeks apart. Then I got the Herceptin infusions for the HER-2 plus3 factor. Early and quite small can still be mean and aggressive, and needs the book thrown at it ...
By the way, i had to quit the Herceptin (treatment for the HER-2 being highly positive) because it has potential to cause congestive heart disease, which damage is measured by having quarterly echocardiograms to measure left ventrical ejection factor. Normal is where I started, around 75, and 6 months later it had drifted down to 54. Guidelines are to stop treatment if it drops below 50. I just decided that 6 months of treatment would have to be enough, as i did not want to develop congestive heart disease.
It will be interesting to know whether Robin's tumor has the MIB-High and HER2 positive.
Delina -
I actually think that Robin Roberts has been incredibly discreet about her illness and hopefully feels that she has sufficient privacy. As always, she's totally a class act. When you consider all of the celebrities whose lives are an open book to the public, she, in sharp contrast, has kept her private and public lives appropriately separate. I don't think that most people are even aware of her sexual preference, yet she's not been secretive about it....just private.
I hope that she's feeling well enough to do GMA tomorrow.
~Marin
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I like Robin and of course I'm always glad to see an even semi openly gay person in the media. I so think she blurs the lines of being a journalism and her personal life, not just with breast cancer, but also with hurricaine Katrina and her hometown last year. To me the evidence of this is the tears in her eyes while interviewing Tony Snow, letting people know when she's having treatment, etc. It's not all on Robin, the producers have final say in what she is and isn't going to do. The more personal she is, the more I question her objectivity and ability to separate herself from the stories as a journalist. There have been at least two times when she talked about how, "all breasts cancer patients feel" that didn't apply to how I felt. It would be different for me if she had a fluff job like on the View, which isn't a news show.
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Almost everyone who gets bc and is premenopausal gets chemo. The exception would be women with DCIS or extremely small invasive cancers like Sheryl Crow. So the fact that she is getting chemo is not inconsistent with it being "early".
Stages I and II are considered early, stage III is locally advanced and stage iV is advanced. I was stage IIb so I am technically early stage but when people ask me if it was caught early I say no. I think when the public thinks of early they think DCIS or at most stage I, not a tumor the size of the one I had and not any positive nodes. -
I was hoping she would be back today so I could see how she made out. I was stage 1 & had chemo.They said it was due to the size of the lump. I had 4 treatments & then rads. She did say before that she was going to lose her hair so I figured she was having chemo.
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ADK, I had chemo and radiation after lumpectomy and I was stage 1 grade 2, not triple neg. It depends on the size of the mass, among other things.
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MOTC mirrored what my onc said .... I was 42, 1.3cm (turned out to be 1.7 in the final path) and premenopausal. My onc said before I even had the mast that I was most likely stage I (and I was) and that certainly I was having chemo. If I chose lumpectomy, it was going to add rads with that.
I was considered early stage and I think like MOTC, I don't even think I caught it early enough. I had DCIS and IDC and I often think if I had had my mammo at 41 (was still nursing and lactating til just after 40) and meant to get my first one at 41 ... well maybe it would have simply been DCIS .. but it wasn't and here we are.
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It seems like Sheryl Crowe & I are the only ones who did not do chemo with IDC stage 1. Makes me wonder if I did the right thing, but chemo wasn't really offered, it was mentioned casually by the first onc, but she only mentioned it as a threat to get me to take anti-hormonal drugs (I won't). My IDC was so small, it was completely taken out with the first excision and the second excision only produced DCIS. I had the lump for three years before I had it taken care of, so it must have been the laziest cancer on the planet. I was lucky, I guess.
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Why is the fact that she is semi openly gay so important to mention? She is a woman first and second she is in the battle of her life. I feel that we should stick to the issue at hand and whatever her sexual preferences are is unimportant (IMHO).
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I agree with shorbr. what does her orientation have to do with her dx of BC. It should not have even been mentioned.
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quote: Almost everyone who gets bc and is premenopausal gets chemo. The exception would be women with DCIS or extremely small invasive cancers like Sheryl Crow.
MOTC,
I don't mean to nitpick, but there are many more exceptions. Many women who, like me, present with bone mets at first dx skip right over chemo and onto AROMATASE INHIBITORS along with OVARIAN SUPPRESSION (ZOLADEX) or OOPHERECTOMY as well as BIOPHOSPHONATES. This tx is not uncommon and is considered first-line.
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bad boob, we were talking about early stagers not ALL women dx or tx. Yes, I've seen that women with mets sometimes skip chemo as it has already progressed and chemo is one of the frontline defenses.
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ADK ... you're not alone. I had a very small IDC (stage 1) and also did not have chemo. My oncotype DX score was a 19 and I chose to decline chemo with my oncologists blessing. I was premenopausal at the time of diagnosis - but had a hysterectomy shortly after and am taking Arimidex. One of my doctors considers hormone therapy to be a type of chemo since it is systemic.
Doreen
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Shorb it's all part of what makes Robin who she is and what she brings to the table. Perhaps if there were more openly gay people in the media it would be less of an issue. For me, it's nice to see people who are like me-- when in the not too distant past they would have been prevented from holding a high profile news position. There are different challenges for some lesbians with breast cancer which may or may not effect Robin, since she has excellent health care and enough financial resources. She's educated enough to include any wife/partner in her living will and durable power of attorney etc. and would likely not have some of the issues many would.
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Just wanted to say...."Didn't Robin look beautiful today!" She was wearing a cute black top....and I noticed that her eyes seemed to have more makeup on them.....she looked FANTASTIC! I also give her a big CHEER for having more energy then I do.....I can barely make it out of bed before 7:00 a.m. I could just imagine getting up as early as she does to do the GMA show.
Love,
Terry -
She did look especially attractive today, Terry! I never would have thought that someone as athletic-looking as she could get away with puffy sleeves (just like I can't), but she totally pulled it off. Can you imagine how very TGIF she felt about today, after the week she's had???! I hope she gets to really chill!
~Marin
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Robin's arms are long and thin....so the puffy sleeves look JUST RIGHT on her. I really enjoy watching her and I think she will be a great inspiration to those of us who are still dragging around the house....Laughing at myself. And Diane...well she is also one thin small boned woman....looked fantastic today also.
I was looking for a semi-frilly blouse this last weekend with the goal of purchasing it and a nice sweater. I could not find one blouse...but I did purchase a nice sweater..so not all is lost.
Love Terry -
I haven't watched GMA this week, did she have treatment this week? I've lost track of time.
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