Hi all! A friend is a Portuguese national living in UK. Her English is limited. She got diagnosed with breast cancer not so long ago and is struggling with the support. I wondered if someone in the community could help her with navigating the NHS process...
I had a lumpectomy Sept 2020 and all nodes on left side removed. I do have lymphedema in this arm. Recently I’ve been getting odd pains ( a bit like nerve pain ) and discomfort on right side. It seems very weird that I’m getting discomfort on the opposite...
Hi all, Just been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer and feel absolutely flawed. Can't sleep at all so many crazy thoughts going through my mind. Got oncology appt Monday and don't know what to expect. Know I need chemo and then a mastectomy...
Hi I had a lumpectomy and 8 lymph nodes removed on the 20th May. Thought I was doing well post surgery as I regained full movement in arm and shoulder very quickly and my scars healed up very well. I have in past few days been experiencing a feeling...
Hi Hope you are all having as good a weekend as possible I started with a throat / chest infection last week ( so Dr thinks , I didn’t actually see anyone ) , got antibiotics ( dr wasn’t that keen to give me them either ) . My little one has had a...
I often wondered how would I feel being diagnosed with cancer. My answer was "Awful" and here I am 5 weeks past the diagnosis and 1 week before the operation ( lump and nodes ) and I feel nothing. I am working as normal, running as normal and so far I...
Has anyone come off letrozole and tried any other tablets please. I have taken it for a year and I have had enough. Are all the others just as bad. Recommendations please
Hello everyone! I was diagnosed with Stage 1 grade 3 TNBC and I'm on neoadjuvant chemotherapy. I finished 4 rounds of of EC and my next protocol is the weekly taxol + Carboplatin with every 21 days pembrolizumab. Can anyone please share your experience...
I just want to say….I’m 4 years post diagnosis and, yay, I’m feeling good! I just want to acknowledge how hard it is for all those friends that have been diagnosed and treated….as we all know it doesn’t end there. We worry, constantly about recurrence...
Hi just been given my results from my masectomy. Treatment so far is that last year I had a theraputic mammoplasty with reduction on other side. Results from that was 20mm grade 2 er/pr positive her2 positive tumour and have had 3 x ec and paclitaxel...
