Hi all. Post lumpectomy for primary breast cancer and DCIS. Radiotherapy in the new year. Not going to lie, it's been tough, I went back to work and hardest part is my boss had a family member who had cancer 'so much worse' so 'you must be fine, right...
Hi I was recently diagnosed in October last year I’ve had to operations to remove lump and lymph nodes in on my second round of chemotherapy I’m struggling more this time round
Hi there I have just undergone surgery to remove lobular breast cancer. I'ts been three days since the op. I now await the results. I'm doing ok I think but am quite anxious and still feel very weird about the whole thing. My diagnosis and everything...
Hi, I was diagnosed with breast cancer Jan this year. On the 26 Feb I had a lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy. I spend 8 days in hospital. I had to have further surgery to remove a haematoma. I've had a blood transfusion, and iron infusion...
Hi, I have been diagnosed with breast cancer at the beginning of the year. I found this out following a routine mamogram in January. I have had a lumpectomy and had some lymph nodes removed. I was given good news saying they got all of the cancer with...
Hello I had a mastectomy 20 years ago with partial lymph node removal. All has been ok until I went to a colorectal surgeon because of a failed FIT test and anemia. I had a full body scan, bowels were ok but they found two lumps in my remaining breast...
Hi everyone Thought I’d jump on here so I can pretty much let off a bit of steam, because I know you’ll understand. My last six months in short… Mum was diagnosed with a brain tumour in Feb 2022, she deteriorated massively in Oct 2023. Sept...
Good morning all, I am a male aged 53 and just diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm aware this is usually a ladies unfortunate affliction but I just wondered if I could get any advice or recommendations? Thank you very much x
Hi, I’m new here! I had a single mastectomy and implant reconstruction a week ago, and I still feel so tired. Sleeping twice a day I wondered if this was normal? Thank you x
Hi everyone, I first had a lumpectomy for DCIS in November 2022. My cancer returned summer 2023 and I had SMX and Diep in October. They initially thought, based on biopsy, that it was only DCIS but it turned out that there was a second HER2+ tumour...
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