Morningstar’s Story

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Age at diagnosis 29 Year diagnosed 2010 Brief Story I was diagnosed with stage IV left Inflammatory breast cancer with mediastinal lymphadenopathy as well as lymph nodes in the bilateral supraclavicular region. I was on Taxotere, Carboplatin and Herceptin regimen with...

Terry’s Story

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I was diagnosed with TN IBC in my right breast in August of 2007 after months of misdiagnosis. As if an IBC triple negative diagnosis was not enough of a blow, I discovered my left breast had triple negative breast cancer as well. My cancer story started with “Mrs....

IBC Treatment Flow Chart

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The MD Anderson Invasive Breast Cancer Treatment Algorithm has been updated to include inflammatory breast cancer. Check it out here. (Press Shift + F (or F3) and type in inflammatory breast cancer to view each occurrence) Please be sure you click through all...

Romidepsin & Abraxane IBC

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Alternative Drug Names: Romidepsin (Istodax brand in the US). Romidepsin is also known as FK228, FR901228, or Depsipeptide; Abraxane is the branded name of Nab-Paclitaxel, a nanoparticle form of Paclitaxel Purpose of Trial: The phase 1 portion of this study is to find...

It’s a Marathon

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Stage 4 cancer. Hope lives, even as we run the marathon.  While metastatic breast cancer can and does kill quickly, for many of us this disease is a marathon. When I was first diagnosed over six years ago with a particularly aggressive type of the disease, I had some...