Hi everyone hope you are having a good day x I am post mastectomy and over half way through chemo. My question is did you have axillary node clearance? Pathology showed micro met in one node but didn't have clearance. Is this normal? Xx
Hi there I had my first zoladex injection a few days ago due to having to come off tamoxifen as I’m allergic to it. what has been peoples experience with zoladex, how long till you feel any side effects and what were they i start anastrazole once...
New to the group. Hello. I'm having a mastectomy of my left breast but also have non-invasive cancer in the right breast. Because I have very large breasts I have been offered a mastectomy on this side (if I want one) or a wide local excision. If it had...
Hi there, Next Tuesday I finish stage one of my treatment plan which was 4 rounds of EC for HER2 + and I wondered what I can anticipate from this stage? I don't quite know how many rounds I am having as they are going to do another MRI to see hopefully...
Hi I went for a radiotherapy consult today and was discussing the next step when the consultant told me I actually had two different cancers within the breast one tumour was invasive lobular cancer and the other was invasive ductal cancer. I was quite...
Hi, I have been offered a mastectomy instead of radiotherapy. The oncologist thinks I should have a mastectomy with breast reconstruction while my surgeon thinks I should have radiotherapy. The reasoning behind the mastectomy is that my DCIS only showed...
I should have got my treatment plan last Friday, but got there only to find out they're still waiting on MRI results on my pelvis. I have stage 2 cancer in my left breast and a lymph node, but hopefully a mastectomy and chemo should get it all. The problem...
Hi, Quick question, has anyone suffered with a sore scalp after chemo? I had my first session on 5th Jan, I cold capped (but don’t think I will next time) I’ve suffered horrendous headaches since the chemo/cold cap and the thought of having the cold...
My mum has stage 4 TNBC. Currently having chemotherapy (paclitaxol) weekly. My mum has always had small/not very good veins, and now they are worse which is making it difficult for some of the nurses to cannulate her for treatment every week, there are...
Hi. I’m 11 days post op now after lumpectomy and lymph node removal. After the initial soreness my inner arm and arm pit all the way down to my elbow hurts whenever I move. Is this normal? I’m seeing my surgeon on Tuesday for results but I thought I’d...
