Well this seems to be my first day , today after an ultrasound and biopsy ( which I’m awaiting the results ) I was told the lump in my breast is presenting itself as cancer the biopsy will confirm although it’s day 1 I’m struggling to digest the information...
Hello, receantly diagnosed with stage 1 triple negative breast cancer. Still waitong on a treatment plan. Everyone keeps telling me to stay away from sugar as it feeds cancer. Has anyone been advised this? And what does stay away actually mean? I mean...
Hi, I was diagnosed with DCIS and it’s covering a very large percentage of my breast which will need to be removed leaving me with very little left. I’m an E cup so the disproportion will look pretty obvious. I’m willing to go down a cup size or two...
Hi, i recently got my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment will be letrozole and mastectomy, plan was flap reconstruction but I choose not to and had a little struggle to convince them I want a bilateral mastectomy and use prosthetics. I had DCIS in...
Hi , I’m new on here. i recently had WLE and Targeted Axilary dissection. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 2 IDC. following surgery a haematoma developed so I had to have further surgery to evacuate this 2 weeks after initial surgery. since the...
Hello I have been diagnosed with breast cancer this week. I have a large tumour covering my whole breast ( I feel so stupid for not noticing it). The consultant said I will need chemotherapy with the aim of shrinking the tumour to make it operable. Has...
Not been here for a while..hope everyone is doing as well as they can? I have currently been taken off my letrozole and abemicilib, which i was given for breast cancer I had a mastectomy no reconstruction. I've been on them for15 months and already had...
Hello All I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to make it to the breast cancer forum! I was diagnosed with Stage 1, Grade 3 HER2+ BC last October I’ve had surgery (2 lumps) and am 5 weeks into chemo - Paclitaxel, Trastuzumab and Zoledronic...
Evening im new here just wanted to ask some questions if anyone would be kind enough to help , my mum had advanced aggressive breast cancer and died in 2011 my two aunts on my mums side ( she came from a large extended sibling group of 7 girls ) also...
Hello people, I'm 3 weeks post therapeutic mammoplasty, worried about letrozole treatment and if I'll be able to tolerate it.
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