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  Community News

  Cancer and the menopause - looking back on Menopause Awareness Month on the Online Community

  Looking back on October, Menopause Awareness Month, we will be highlighting conversations from across the Community related to menopause and cancer.

  Members have been discussing menopausal symptoms related to their cancer treatment. Some members might be experiencing an early menopause due to their cancer treatment, or coping with a natural menopause whilst living with cancer. Members also discussed coping with menopause at the same time as caring for a loved one with cancer or during a bereavement...

  Steph - Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• Life with triple positive breast cancer

  It's lovely and it's hard

  Now that I have shared the news with some friends, I have found it's tricky to navigate the different reactions from people. I know they love and care for me, and I love them too, but that doesn't mean it's not hard at times.  Family...

  Plantlover over 3 years ago
• Well, This Is Rich

  Monday, 23, October 2022. 07:44

  Just received diagnosis on Friday past. (21/10/2022).  Socked and stunned.   Tech talk — squamous cancer T1-N1-M0.  P16 positive. location — back of tongue.   7:51  I keep falling asleep. Cat woke me up at 7...

  BabeRuth over 3 years ago
• A different kind of normal

  4 weeks in

  I should of maybe started this at the beginning (4 weeks ago) but to be honest I think that would of been impossible. It's only now that i feel like I can give anything more then 2 minutes of my attention. It's hard to believe that just over ...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer

  Diagnosis Day

  On 19th September, the day of the Queens funeral I rushed to the breast screening appointment thinking I had an abysses as I had had prickling and redness on my left breast. When I finally went to the GP as the redness did not move she put me on anti...

  Former Member over 3 years ago
• October 13th 2022

  Waiting

  Hospital just rang and hubby is going in on Tuesday for another biopsy, it’s a step closer to finding out. We also had a lovely phone call from his GP who through out all of  this has kept in touch and asked if we needed anything. Hubby ha...

  Confused2022 over 3 years ago
• Who’s idea was this?

  tamoxifen, phesgo, zomita & zoladex

  The treatments I still continue to get are: Zoladex injection in the stomach once every 4 weeks to put me into a menopausal state as i believe all the other things below work better on menopausal women. I get hot flushes and night sweats from this. O...

  KM26 over 3 years ago
• Who’s idea was this?

  Radiotherapy

  I had 15 sessions of radio therapy (mon-Fri for 3 weeks) and then i got to ring the bell at the end! which was actually a really nice feeling and made at least some of it worth it I didn't find radio too bad really i did start to get tired by the...

  KM26 over 3 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Very slow progress

  2 days after the oncology registrar dumped the news about my liver lesion to me cold, over the telephone, I had my consenting appointment with the radiotherapy consultant. He had access to the same information as oncology, and was somewhat bemused. &...

  Coddfish over 3 years ago
• October 13th 2022

  Confused

  Just had a phone call from hubby’s Macmillian nurse, Told us it’s not good even though it sounds like it is, biopsy results come back negative! And would hubby have another one? Yes yes yes! we need to know what type of cancer it is to se...

  Confused2022 over 3 years ago