hi everyone!

first of all let me say that i'm sorry i have been so MIA lately, i
do try to keep up with the readings, but don't always get a chance to
respond! hope you are all doing well...

for those of you who don't remember...my mom has sd...will be 20
years in Oct. external...fingers, toes...raynaud's/crest....

well...we got some disturbing news today. a breast biopsy came back
positive for breast cancer! sigh....

i'm wondering if anyone out there can help...i'm going to post this
message on all the boards i can think of....

they offered 2 options....lumpectomy with radiation...or a masectomy
with chemo IF it has spread to lympnodes...(sorry for the
spellings!) they said that sometimes a oncologist won't do radiation
on SDers....so we may need to go the masectomy route, which seems
like what mom tends to be leaning towards...

it was caught VERY early....it barely showed up on the mamo. or the
ultrasound, so that seems to be the good news. and they seem to
think it hasn't really spread. but we don't know for sure.

has anyone with SD gone through this? is there info somewhere about
breast cancer and SD....i haven't checked anywhere yet....making the
boards my first stop....

kinda shocking! no one was really expecting this thing as big around
as a pencil would turn out this way....

i'd appreciate your help if you can....you can e-mail me seperately
if you want....blue-eyes-1012@... just put something to do with
SD inthe subject line in case i don't recognize the name and think
it's spam.....

thank you all in advance....

Diane