Has anyone had a pico dressing after surgery? im having theraputic mammoplasty surgery soon and my surgeon told me i would have a pico dressing for two weeks changed after one week he did say it would drive me mad i guess because it's operated by battery...
Yesterday I got informed that the final test result had come through and it now turns out that I am Her2 positive aswell so I now won’t be having surgery on the 15th of September as I have to have chemo before it can be taken out. There is another wait...
Hi everyone, I’m hoping to hear from anyone who has been in a similar situation and had to make a difficult decision about chemotherapy. I’m 47 and was diagnosed with ER-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. It hadn’t spread to my lymph nodes and I...
I have breast cancer HER2 +ve and just started the first cycle of chemotherapy (phesgo and carboplatin and docetaxel). I also need to inject the Accofil for white blood cell growth. I read the side effect might also has diarrhoea. The 4th night started...
Hi. I was diagnosed with high grade DCIS in April, had a therapeutic mammoplasty in June and currently on 5 days radiotherapy. Op went very well, tho they did find a small, 2mm grade 1 cancer in the bits which had been removed. I've been given the option...
I was originally diagnosed with TNBC but after my lumpectomy and lymph node investigation on 16th June I was told last week that the further tests had shown that it is now an HER2 positive. Today I have been to The Christie in Macclesfield to discuss...
Had scans yesterday for calcifications in right breast and been told they look benign so a win so just left breast cancer hoping lymph node’s are fine
Good morning everyone - I am about to start Chemotherapy (dont know exact drugs for chemotherapy yet) for stage 3 breast cancer and wondered about other people's experience's regarding hair loss?. Am I right in thinking that I will lose all my hair?....
Hello all of you wonderful people For four days last week I had all the clinical signs of IBC. I wasn’t even - despite having a very strong BC family history - aware of what IBC is, until I googled redness, dimpling, orange peel skin, breast infection...
My mastectomy was 8 days ago and it immediately developed what I now know is seroma. Basically it just looks like a B-cup boob, and has done since I first looked at it a few hours after the surgery. Today the nurse tried to drain it by inserting the...
