My friend is due to start chemotherapy shortly and has been searching for a wig that closely matches her style and colour - blonde , long, wavy with a fringe. Unfortunately she has been unable to find such a wig as they have all been darker than her current...
️I had my lumpsectomy yesterday, was a success. My gosh I has no idea how I would be waiting so long. First appointment radioactive injection, then onto hospital for operation. Fasting the say before 12pm -8am. I was hungry, thirsty and operation...
Hi Everyone I have been told I have an enlarged internal mammary node which I’m really concerned about . I have spoken to the Doctor and oncologist and They cannot be sure if this is cancerous or swollen due to the trauma of bilateral mastectomy....
My 78 year old mum had a mastectomy in December and I think she is recovering really well. We were told it was a grade 3 large aggressive cancer, triple negative, but had not spread to the lymph nodes so they think they have it all, but obviously no guarantee...
Just wanted to say hi to all you lovely people. I’ve been on the site for a while now reading people’s stories and following their journey through breast cancer. im 53 and was diagnosed with lobular cancer , which wasn’t picked up on my mammogram. Had...
I have been diagnosed with grade 3 breast cancer and estrogen negative. Is this the same as invasive ductal cancer grade 3 triple negative ? I am currently waiting to see the oncologist for a chemo treatment plan.
Hi, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in August 2021. I have been taking a daily drug that doesn't allow the cancer to feed. (hopefully), and tomorrow I have surgery. I recently underwent open heart surgery which due to complications left...
Ufff, I´m feeling a little low. In the months straight after my diagnosis and up until Christmas, I was so busy with appointments, chemo treatments and various tests (you know how it is) and friends and family - on my husband´s side, my own haven´t...
Hi im meeting my oncologist on weds is there anything I need to ask please any information that I may need to get mybhead round ive been told I'll be starting chemo at the end of the Jan xx
So, having had a recurrence on my mastectomy scar 3 weeks ago I got results from my surgeon who told me it had changed from dcis to grade 3 breast cancer and told me that at the MDT they decided I need chemotherapy. We had a discussion of when it would...
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