Showing posts with label ALND. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALND. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

Rock and a Hard Place...

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I find this song running through my head constantly this week,
as I consider this next stage's options...
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(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

The fields of Eden
Are full of trash
And if we beg and we borrow and steal
We'll never get it back
People are hungry
They crowd around
And the city gets bigger as the country comes begging to town


We're stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place

This talk of freedom
And human rights
Means bullying and private wars and chucking all the dust into our eyes
And peasant people
Poorer than dirt
Who are caught in the crossfire with nothing to lose but their shirts

Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place

You'd better stop put on a kind face
Between a rock and a hard place

We're in the same boat
On the same sea
And we're sailing south
On the same breeze
building dream churches
With silver spires
And our rogue children
Are playing loaded dice

Give me truth now
Don't want no sham
I'd be hung drawn and quartered for a sheep just as well as a lamb

Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop
Put on a kind face
Can't you see what you've done to me

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Think...think...think

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This round of research is more daunting than when deja vu first came calling. I am trying to educate myself on the pros & cons of the two scenarios that have been thus far presented:

Select removal of the impacted axillary lymph nodes followed up by radiation of the chest wall

or

Full axillary nodal dissection

So far nothing that gives me an understandable comparison. Most of the journal articles that I have found all conclude their findings with the impact on early stage breast cancer. I am advanced stage, metastatic (now).  And, although I "remembered", I am hit anew with the short-term objective of all studies, i.e., 5-year disease free survival.

Ah...WWPD????