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Lymphoma

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                                        An Armor of Hope How to Diagnose and Treat Breast Implant–Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma March 2018 https://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Fulltext/2018/04000/How_to_Diagnose_and_Treat_Breast.40.aspx “As of February 2018, 518 unique cases of BIA-ALCL across 25 countries have been reported” “The World Health Organization currently classifies BIA-ALCL as a lymphoma at all stages.” “It is important to note that all of these designations and nomenclatures are still referring to a cancer. Patients with BIA-ALCL can have progression of their disease, lymph node involvement, and death as a result of disease, particularly with significant delay in diagnosis or sub-optimal treatment.” “It remains unclear what effect inadvertent spillage of the seroma during capsulectomy has on local seeding of disease; however, clin...

Never To Be Forgotten

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  Never To Be Forgotten    It’s been over three months since my daughter Cara Podenski cut me off from ALL communication with her and my grandson Everest. I sent him a gift and it arrived last week. It is an art set that  I would have gone crazy for as a child .    It’s a Crayola kit and it has so many things. I would be jumping out of my skin at his age.  I was hoping he would love art as much as I do.     The point is I’m not going to give up. I’ve done everything I could possibly do to connect with my sister, Francine Mastini (aka Jayne Fury) and brother, and now that my mother and father are both gone well I’m an orphan. They managed to exclude me even to the point that They are going against my father’s wishes. My father left me a ship, but they have held it from me. It was in his will. There were also three cremation pots from my mother’s ashes and I have not received mine. I do know that my Italian family love me unco...