Hi I’m really not sure if I’m in the right place, my mum had kidney cancer 4 years ago and then had breast cancer 2 years ago with her having a double mastectomy, on her yearly kidney scan they have picked up a mass in her lymph nodes and we got the results...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 5th Dec I was told that I had caught it early and it was curable grade 1 slow growing cancer my treatment plan was radiotherapy, tamoxifen and possible chemo, I would told I needed a lumpectomy and another biopsy...
Hi everyone ive been on letrazole and ribo for a month now and struggling with side effects like really bad headaches body pain and sickness is anyone else having any side effects and how they are dealing with it all any advice would be really helpful...
11 days ago my 45 year old wife mentioned that she had noticed a new lump in her right breast - in the same location that she had a cyst around two years previously. She also had some discomfort in her right armpit. She was sure it would be another cyst...
Hi I’m due to start abemaciclib and was wondering what side effects people had and for how long? I’m hoping to go back to work soon and was wondering what I was going to be dealing with , already on tamoxifen, zoladex and ibandronic acid. Thank you
I start my Chemotherapy treatment tomorrow for Brest Cancer. Still very unsure as to use a cold cap or not?
I am new on this forum. I have got invasive ductal carcinoma and my treatment starts tomorrow at Royal Marsden Hospital. As it is 10mm only I have been offered participation in SMALL clinical trial and randomised to the vacuum excision under local anesthetic...
I haven’t posted here for years. I’ve been on Letrozole for 13 years and my GP has told me today that they can no longer prescribe it. This has totally floored me as the knowledge Letrozole is keeping me safe from secondary breast cancer is what keeps...
I was recently, (last week), diagnosed with breast cancer at 39 years old. That was my first appointment with the breast surgeon and the assigned nurse. I was told that my cancer is 'curable' but at the same time looking at my pathology results it's classified...
Hi, has anyone out there had a second breast cancer in the same breast while on letrozole? Mine was after 4 years and this time I had to have a mastectomy. They now want me to change from letrozole to either tamoxifen or exemestane and take for another...
