Breast cancer

FormerMember
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Hi my name is Denise I was diagnosed with breast cancer last September I found a lump and went to the doctors and she said was a situ and then she send me for mammogram first one and the doctor felt it and he said to me I am worry my heart was in my mouth so u went for a mammogram and scan and biopsy and I was lying on the table and ask the doctor whats going on and she said to me u have breast cancer and I was on own my husband was out in the car waiting on me. So I am diagnosed with invasive duct breast cancer stage 2 and I got a mastectomy and they remove 4 lymph nodes on the 13th October and then went bk to see the surgeon and he told me there was 2 lymph nodes had cancer and other 2 were clear so onthe 28rh off October I got 10 lymph nodes removed and they were all clear so I went to see oncologist on the 17th November and he told me that I have to go and get 6 chemo and 15 radiotherapy and hormone therapy tablets 10 years but he give a percent so he give 80percent the cancer will never come back. So I went for my first chemo of the 13th January every 3 weeks and I finish chemo on the 4th May and then I start radiotherapy on the 25th off May 15 sessions and I finish radiotherapy on the 15th of June. And when it was my last chemo the doctor told me they got all the cancer. So today I got a letter through the post for a mammogram and I am so scared incase they tell me that there cancer in my other breast I know myself there nothing but I am really down about the whole lot.

  • If your letter is from the Breast Screening Service, it is an automatically generated letter to call for you. They don't know that you are already being treated for breast cancer. Ring your Breast Care Nurse just to check.

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember in reply to Lesley63

    No I am due a mammogram its a year next Month from I was diagnosed with breast cancer my surgeon has send for me to get a mammogram just dreading it so much its so scary 

  • I've heard that the annual checks can be scary but they need to be done and, hopefully, will be all clear.

  • It’s totally normal given all our situations that were terrified for our results and being down is totally normal, whatever that is now! But we have to go! We have to get checked and come hell or high water those results will come and god it’s hard waiting. Keep talking to people and know being scared is fine, normal. All the very best, let us know how you get on xx