Breast cancer

Hi Dc corbett, I can understand your anxiety its all very new at the moment, but when you have a treatment plan in place you will feel so much calmer its the unknown that makes us stressed. Well what the BCN said is fantastic news the cancer gone and no lymph nodes involved thats the best news to hear. I had my mastectomy 20 years ago, and had 15 lymph nodes removed. The next step for me was chemo therapy i had 1 dose every 3 weeks, 6 doses in total, then tomoxofen for 10 years. Obviously your treatment may be different and may involve radiotherapy.  This is the hardest of times waiting to see what happens next but you have had great news and there is no reason to think it wont carry on. If i had any advice it would be take each day at a time, dont over do things, dont over think things, never google their info is out of date and often wrong. There will be tough days and you will feel like you are on a roundabout and you can not get off but there are so many more treatment available now and we are living well and happy for longer. When i have a bad day i treat myself to a Macdonalds simple and sweet haha. I wish you all the best in your further treatments and dont forget to breath Dawn x

Hi Dc

I too had a mastectomy no lymph nodes involved but her2-. So no hormone treatment but I did get 5 doses of radiotherapy. Mine was originally diagnosed as high grade DCIS but the post mastectomy results showed some micro  invasion so upgraded to stage 2. There does seem to be a lot of variation in treatment plans. You don’t have long to wait now - hope it goes well on the 3rd.xx

Thanks so much right now I’m having really bad side effects from my anti depressants and my doctor probably doesn’t go back to work until Jan 2 waiting to hear from him.  Also not sleeping which makes it so much harder.  It’s a bad cycle 

Hi thanks me too just very worried.