Hi I was diognosed with high grade positive raptors docs . To day seen my consultant to talk over planes of surgery and best for me is mastectomy . I feel broken told I don’t want reconstruction of my breast . After left room nurse came out leafed and...
Ok - so successful surgery now for radiotherapy & drug treatment. Can anyone advise about which drug they would recommend & any side effects you have experienced. I have a choice of tamoxifen or letrozole - both have potential nasty side effects, but...
Hello, I had a right breast cancer diagnosis last year which was hormonal and found by mammogram, I had a lumpectomy and then radiotheraphy in March now on Letrozole for 5 years. On the 8 July I found a large lump in my left breast, I contacted my...
Started chemo on Wednesday and everything I’ve eaten or drunk tastes and feels oily, is this normal?? I’m trying to drink plenty to stay hydrated but even water is tasting vile
3 biopsies after finding an indentation 5 weeks ago. Have been told it is breast cancer. Now waiting for the appointment with the consultant next week for grading and treatment plan Any advice on how I can prepare for this? Information wise. I have...
So we have had my wife's pathology results after her masectomy. It was 8cm high grade dcis with a small microinvasion. Lymph nodes clear and clear margins. The Consultant said they have to have an mdt meeting but is pretty confident she won't need...
Hope this is ok, I get my results back on Wednesday but expecting the worse. My mum had her 1st BC at 48, I’m 49 always checking for lumps and nothing but I went on a diet because of the menopause and lost 14cm around my breast noticed dimpling when my...
Hi everyone i got told yesterday after another biopsy and a MRI SCAN that I have cancer in both breasts so treatment possibly delayed while they investigate. I haven’t slept anmy anxiety has spiralled out of control. Now I feel more scared of dying...
Hi! Firstly I'd like to say what a reassuring group this is. After my 1st routine mammogram beginning Aug age 50 I was recalled and told there were microcalcifications in my left breast. Following another mammogram and vacuum assisted biopsy I was diagnosed...
I’ve been diagnosed with Breast Cancer after a Mammogram I’m grade 2 oestrogen positive. I’m just 60 not a nice present anybody wants to remember their 60th by! The plan is to do a Lumpectomy on the 19th September but it has to be under a Local as it...
