The quality of life is my priority. I’m 75, very active and I would say healthy except for diagnosis of Breast and underarm lymph tumors in left side early December 23. Taking letrozole 52 days so far , no issues apart from night sweats. I I have been...
Hi everyone, I had a skin and nipple sparing mastectomy last week. The healing is going well except there is complete numbness of more than half of the breast and the whole of armpit extending to just under the side of the shoulder. Did anyone have...
After 2x ops chemo and radiotherapy I thought I was recovering well the only side effect being fatigue which I was coping with. Then in September I started on abemaciclib, letrozol and biophosphonates and my god have things got worse. The abemaciclib...
Hello everyone, I'm new to this group but I desperately need advise and support. I had Covid in the early stages of it x2. The 2nd time took me off my feet for ages. I have been diagnosed with fybromyalgia along with long Covid. However, I was also diagnosed...
Has anyone else got same diagnosis as me ? 9 lymph node involvement grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma, ERO, PRO, HER2 positive?? off I’m honest I have no idea what this means ♀️I have no idea what stage I am but guessing 3, the drs don’t seem to want...
Hi. I'm a 36yo mum of 2 (age 4 and 1) and almost 2 years ago I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer with secondary in the liver. I was told it was life-limiting and after a course of chemotherapy, I was put on targeted therapy of Letrozole, Ribociclib...
Hi. I am new here. I was recently diagnosed with a Grade 2 Invasive Ductal Carcinoma and a borderline papilloma in the same breast. I will be having lumpectomies and SLNB and feeling very overwhelmed and anxious. Struggling to sleep, constant headache...
Hi all, I have invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 2, and i have been given the opportunity to either have a lumpectomy or a mastectomy, I have discussed it with my partner and he asked which would be better for me, I am 66 years old, what is your opinion...
Just wanted a little advice on chemo/cold capping ongoing progress. I've found loads of info for starting chemo but I just wanted to know how you guys got on going forward. I had my 3rd of 6 cycles of EC90 GSF. First treatment December- sailed through...
So I got the news I was dreading, the suspicious areas on my pelvis are indeed cancer, so they've decided I won't be having a mastectomy now and I've been handed off to the oncologist who should be in touch next week. At the appointment I broke down and...
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