Hello Friends I had a grade 3 tumour removed last week and my lymph nodes - thankfully only a lumpectomy and only in 1 breast. Surgery was rapid after an out of the blue diagnosis. CT scan and oncologist next - then chemo starting in May (details...
I'd love to hear from anyone else HER2 & ER/PR positive. Just given treatment plan and my head is spinning.
Hi all. I was diagnosed in March 2022. 2 tumours, ER+, HER2 -. I had lumpectomy without clear margins so had a second surgery followed by radiotherapy in July. Have been on Tamoxifen since last June. I returned to work, part time, in October and am...
Hi first time posting on here. I have TNBC grade 3 and I am presently having chemo. I’ve had 4 EC and on Friday started by 12 weeks of Paclitaxel and Carboplatin then I’m having surgery and radiotherapy. I know I’m jumping ahead but just wondered how...
I am now 5 weeks post-op number 2 (I was one of the lucky 1 in 4 who need a re-excision). First op was full axillary clearance plus lumpectomy. Good news - I am brilliant a recovering from operations and only 1 of 32 nodes were cancerous. I was signed...
Has anyone else had all their lymph nodes removed as part of the procedure and are further down the road, any advice of anything I need to do to protect that arm? TIA x
Had my mastectomy on 23rd March, drains were not used as rather the body absorb it. Yesterday morning I could not put my arm down it was so swollen and painful going round my back, all in top of chest. So went to a&e ,was there 6 hours,bloods showed no...
Had my results today, confirming breast cancer . They say CT scan next step. Is that to see if its spread. Have a million questions in my head and no answer, so scared.
Morning, I’ve been looking at this forum for a while debating whether to post something……. In December following my first screening Mammogram I was told I had widespread DCIS in right breast with the only surgical option being a mastectomy verses close...
Just to say hi. Last Thursda y, 23rd of March, I've received my biopsy results, which confirmed I had cancer. I will be treated in the Royal Marsden and my first appointment is next week. I'm scared.
