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After mastectomy & radiotherapy treatment, now have swollen arm that can be controlled by compression treatment which I'm going through. Caused by radiotherapy. Would like to know how other breast cancer patients are dealing with this. My arm swelling...
Hi all, Wondered if anyone else had had this? Im halfway through the keynote regimen for triple negative with lymph node involvement. A few weeks into chemo i got my full biopsy results from the surgeon, which had the tumour down as ER4, and HER2 2...
I am Autistic with ADHD, fibromyalgia and MECFS. Long term treatment resistant depression and CPTSD. I'm less concerned about the cancer, but more concerned about the impact stopping HRT will have on my other conditions. Can anyone relate, been through...
Hi, I was diagnosed on 10 March 2022 and was put straight on to letrazole (they knew that the surgery would be delayed because I needed a lot of investigations prior to surgery) I’ve found the side effects of letrazole very difficult to cope with -...
Good morning everyone...I was diagnosed with Her2 left BC on the17th July..After finding a lump myself.....I'm going for a lumpectomy tomorrow with Axillary sentinel lymph node biopsies....I had a mammogram in November 2025 which was all clear...After...
I hope you don’t mind me posting here, I don’t have breast cancer, I have a rare sarcoma that is estrogen fed so is treated in the same way as breast cancer. I have been on anastrozole now for 11 years. Like letrozole I have had different side effects...
Hi i was diganosed with Stage2 ILC on 6th July, its a 4cm by 4cm mass which im shocked at as had a mammogram 18months before and it was clear and my consultant said its slow growing? Initial MRI Contrast Scan shows no spread to lympth nodes however...
Anyone else fed up with the over whelming fatigue associated with breast cancer. Im in remission and finished chemotherapy and radiotherapy 4 years ago. However hormonal tablet to take for 5 years have turned me into a zombie as Im constantly tired. On...
Getting Magseeds in 23rd September been told it shouldn’t be painful but still nervous
Hi morning!! Awake due to paclitaxel aches! I was diagnosed with er pr positive invasive ductal carcinoma in Feb this year had right mastectomy and implant reconstruction originally I was told It was early and only 7mm turned out to be 6cms and stage...
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