That the main purose of all this is to gather statistics....to find out who has who hasn't what,who their relatives are or aren't what experiences they have had or not had... With great numbers of people inputting information comes knowledge. I am a 10 year survivor...the notion that sentinal node was "OK' was brand new....I didn't trust it....so I had 12 nodes excised. During my treatment, the protocol of 4 treatments of adriamycin and cytoxin and then 4 treatments of taxol....even for non mestatized BC, was new. Herceptin was brand new.... And I expect to see massive strides in the next 5 years. We're getting close I hope, for a vaccine like wwe have for the organism that causes so much cervical cancer. Linda C

Sharon You are so right. Our quilt auction was last night and I am happy to report that your quilt went for $225 and we raised over $9400 this year. I plan to have pictures posted by the end of the weekend. Things have been so hectic here, that I can't put a time crunch of today on posting. My intent is to scan our quilt book today into a pdf file so that I can hopefully just upload that. If that won't work, then I will have to transfer everything to photobucket and post each individual picture, which I am sure non of you will be disappointed in. I will post as quickly as I can. Lynn

My appt is scheduled for the 27th of this month! I'm on a program where I go in every 2 years. However, since I had the breast reduction 2 years ago, they need a doctor's prescription for it, because of the scarring. I think it won't be an issue, but you never know. I think it's worth a little discomfort.

In today's mail I received the written report from my annual mammogram. At the bottom of the letter was a box of information from: American College of Radiology, Society of Breast Imaging, American College of Ob&Gyn, Nat'l Comp Care Network: Guideline for Early Breast Cancer Detection for Women of Average Risk: Last on the list (below yearly mammogram, clinical breast exam, self exam) was: Breast MRI: Some women, because of their family history, a genetic tendency, or certain other factors, should be screened with MRI in addition to mammography. (The number of women who fall into this category is small: less than 2% of all women in the US.) Talk with your doctor about your history and whether you should have additional tests at an earlier age.