I’m looking for advice and information please. I am just starting my 5 year journey of hormone therapy. I have been given the crescent brand of Anastrozole and am taking my first tablet today. What sort of side effects are people getting and how long...
Hi all, I have been taking tamoxifen now for about 3 months these appear to be not treating me well at all on the joint pain side of things I get out of bed like an 80 year old woman on a morning with bad knee and back pain but my main concern is my...
Hello everyone I had diagnosis last Friday of papillary in situ right breast. For a number of reasons, including that I’m age 81 so no wish to preserve breast and wanted to avoid possibility of radiation, it’s been agreed best option is a mastectomy...
Hi. I’ve just had the pathology from surgery a couple of weeks ago. There is a very small amount of cancer cells remaining so I will be starting TDM1. This seems to be a chemo drug. Can anyone help me with their experience? I’ve read it’s administered...
Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing as well as can be on your respective journeys, sending much love and strength to all I wondered if anyone is taking part in the Track-ER trial and how they are getting on? Also, any other views/ additional info...
So yesterday was my surgery - lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy. It was a long day. Booked in at 7.30am. Sent down for wire insertion first thing then taken down for operation at 2.30pm The general anaesthetic which I had really worked myself...
Hi All. I hope you are all doing ok. I got my results after surgery and at biopsy stage it was 1.6 in size and after surgery it is 30 mm so looks to have doubled in size in 3 months. Has anyone else has this. Grade 2 Invasive. Any information/ comments...
I had a reconstruction mastectomy 6 weeks ago. I’m still sleeping on my back propped up with a wedge shape pillow. How long did you sleep like this before returning to laying flat in bed again?
Anyone on tdm1 … kadcyla for life ok like a bad penny here. I feel like in no mans land every three weeks ..tdm1 etc on it till stops working . But I feel at 50 4 years nearly I can’t apply to work . Was a full time mum then went back to study but cancer...
Hi ladies, I hope you are all doing well. I just wondered if anyone else is ER+ and HER+. I've had a call with oncologist and she's said that as my ER score was 3/8, so not strongly hormone positive, she didn't think that taking Tamoxifen would have...
