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Wise Elder
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I just walked in the door from my smash-n-mash and had discussed daily exams with the radiologist. She made, what to me, is a significant point.
Daily exams will make it more difficult to detect subtle changes! It's perfect common sense to me and I hereby open the floor to any other opinions on this.
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That's a great point AMN. If there is something growing slowly, you might not notice a change, but begin to accept it as part of the normal tissue.
If you check say, once a month, and the same spot went from miniscule to maybe 2-3 centimeters you'd notice a difference more easily.
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"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (02-20-2009) |
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Wise Elder
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Exactly, Wiz, I felt it was important to point this out. Sometimes the best of intentions are ill-advised and I suspect that daily exams are among them.
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—Cindy For every day I choose to play, I set aside a day to pay. —AMN "Sometimes plastic wrap just won't cling, no matter how much money you put in the meter." —From the Book of True Wizdom |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (02-20-2009) |
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Grand Magnate
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Agreed.
It's a good idea to actually look in the mirror to see that everything is symmetrical.
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Elder
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Also, there's a more rare form of breast cancer that looks more like inflammation of the skin, so even if the changes are outside the breasts, get them checked out for any changes.
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Wiz Turn Left at the next election. . RRMS DX 01/28/03 Started Copaxone again on 12/09/09 |
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"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (02-20-2009), Twinkletoes (02-19-2009) |
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Wisest Elder Ever
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I agree. Plus, I believe you'd do a more thorough exam if it was only done once (or even twice) a month. I can tell you that I'd get tired of the every day thing and start to cut corners just to get it done. Good point, Cindy (no pun intended....
![]() Oh, and Twink....I haven't been symmetrical in years! ![]()
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"Thanks for this!" says: | tkrik (02-20-2009), Twinkletoes (02-19-2009) |
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Grand Magnate
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Wise Elder
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Very good point, AMN. I completely agree. Thanks for posting about this.
![]() Wiz - Are you talking about Paget's disease of the breast? That does show up as a type of skin/nipple irritation that just doesn't heal. Any lesions on the skin of the breast does need to get checked out. |
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I'm not sure. I just know that I saw a TV show about it once, maybe 20/20 or something like that. It looked like a bad rash or something and it turned out to be aggressive cancer from what I remember. It might have been confused with dermatitis or something. It could easily be ignored for a couple of weeks or more if you thought it was just a rash from soap or deodorant or something.
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