Hi I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer again In the same breast. I had a lumpectomy and chemo 24 years ago. As You can imagine I’m devastated. They have advised a mastectomy. I’m having further scan and Ct to check everything else. I wondered...
Hi, I had a mastectomy and node clearance in the armpit today, done as day surgery 7 days ago. I had 2 drains which were removed 2 days ago by district nurses. I was still losing between 100ml - 200ml per drain each day but was told they must come put...
Just a general questionwhich may make me sound clueless! I’ve finished chemo and had an MRI and will meet with the surgeon next week to discuss my surgery. My question is when diagnosed I had a lump and nothing had spread to my lymph nodes. I am just...
Hi I have a couple of quick questions, I could phone the breast nurse but I feel like I am wasting their time phoning to ask questions. When they give you the tumour size after surgery and it's found to be multiple ones both IDC and ILC is the size...
Had it done today (2nd go in) was bit more painful immediately after but didn’t seem super swollen. Tonight though seemingly quite quite quickly it’s huge hard and very sore to touch. Feels like I remember an engorged boob with breast freezing kind...
I’ve got one positive node so radiotherapy suggested on arm pit area but have been told1 in 10 chance of lymphedema so I should think about if I want to do the radiotherapy there (am having on boob too) didn’t realize there was any risk of this...
Hi I Didn’t get 100% clear margins on my first lumpectomy. 2 weeks ago rather than do a mastectomy, my surgeon is doing another excision tomorrow. He’s- very honestly - said he can’t be sure he’ll get clear margins but he thinks it’s worth another go...
Hi, I had a mastectomy last week with reconstruction from abdomen. However they discovered, during surgery ,that 2 out of the 5 lymph nodes removed have signs of cancer. My surgeon mentioned radiotherapy possibly chemo, depending on all the results...
Hi all I'm due to start adjuvant chemo next week after a double mastectomy with reconstruction..1 of my tumors was triple negative..I have opted to try the cold cap but everyone I seem to speak to including a nurse don't seem to think it's much use..I...
I finished Chemo on Fri, and after 8 hard rounds I’m now feeling physically and mentally drained. Throughout chemo I think I’ve simply gone into autopilot but now knowing this part is complete I’m feeling overwhelmed, it’s almost as if my body’s gone...
