I'm newly diagnosed. Hormone positive, low grade invasive breast cancer. 10mm. Got surgery next week. I've been told my treatment plan is surgery, radiotherapy and endocrine treatment. I'm confused as to how the surgeon can know the plan when he has not...
Hello everyone, I have just turned 50 and was recently diagnosed with a grade 2 invasive cancer. In my first ultrasound it looked like one of my lymph nodes was inflamed so I had a biopsy on that as well as the lump in my breast. I had to wait a hellish...
I had my third round of EC last week and I’m suffering cold chills running from my neck down my spine, upper back and arms. I feel like I have frozen ice packs on my back. It is stopping me from sleeping properly as I just feel so chilled to the bone...
Hi I've been on Letrozole once a day for nearly a year now and also Adcal for bones twice a day. I must say I think I must have been pretty lucky haven't really had any side effects. Had 2 different types of Letrozole as my chemist finds it difficult...
Hi, 3 months ago I had my routine 3 yearly mammogram and a lump was found (for the life of me I couldn’t find it!). After having biopsies it was the worst news. 3 months on and I have had a lumpectomy on my right breast and 7 lymph nodes removed. Good...
Hi all , Has anyone had radiotherapy in the prone position ( face down ) and if so at which UK hospital ? I have been reading that with left side breast cancer this radiotherapy position protects the heart and lungs . Does any one have any thoughts...
Hi out there. Anyone in the same boat as me?on I started Tamoxifen just under a year ago after being diagnosed and treated for bilateral breast cancer. The problem I am facing has been constant bladder infections which seem to have sorted themselves...
We talk a lot on here of the bad so i wanted to share some good and give some people hope. I got told today that the lesion they could see around my collar bone area has gone.... blasted by the chemo. I guess I feel that the chemo was worth it.... it...
Hello everyone, im looking for information about how well you may have tolerated Letrozole and Tamoxifen as my oncologist has suggested a swap to tamoxifen I’ve been taking 2.5 mg Letrozole for 2 years. I’m managing but it’s hard - my wrists especially...
Hi all, I was diagnosed with High Grade DCIS with small foci of IDC grade 2 ER/PR + and HER2 -. I was called a complex case (loved to hear that!) as a combination of my youngish age and the fact that every test showed something new which was not anticipated...
