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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has suffered with side effects of Anastrozole. I’ve only been on them a few weeks and just finished 10 sessions of radiotherapy. Last Wednesday. Last few days my joints have been aching more and more causing me pain...
Hi Everyone, I am 3 weeks post chemo amd waiting to start radiotherapy in the next week or two. I had a lumpectomy and lymph node removal back in October. While in the shower this evening I discovered a lump in my other breast which is freaking me out...
Good morning I’m new here and hope that someone can help. I am 74. I live in UK in NW England. We moved here three years ago from Worcestershire. In 2011, I was diagnosed with Invasive Lobular BC which was successfully treated. I was discharged...
Treated for early breast cancer 17 years ago but mutilated by surgery and radiotherapy.Told could have reconstruction as right , treated , side shrinking A cup and left E. now told too much damage caused by radiotherapy ( got five whole weeks at that...
can some one tell me me what bloods etc I should be having while on exemestane. GP says they don’t know and are writing to oncology team. Oncology team suggest yearly breast xray (mammogram) but nothing else. Also unclear about Covid. I’ve had a 2 week...
So I'm due to start EC-T approximately mid to late May. Portacath to be inserted. ECG & ECHO etc still to be done too but they mentioned a cold cap. Now I've never been a fashionable person or bothered with make up or fussing about my hair, currently...
Hey everyone, I visited the Buckinghamshire One Stop Shop yesterday and was really impressed with the service. I initially went in for a lump in my left breast, which turned out to be just tissue. However, the mammogram revealed two lumps in my right...
Hi all, I just wondering if anyone has had a DIEP at Nottingham hospital? Thanks in advance x
Hello I have received six cycles of kadcyla and now have peripheral neuropathy in my feet. Oncologist paused treatment and said my seventh cycle would be half the dose to allow my feet to recover. I have been taking Gabapentin for five weeks and feet...
Hi Everyone, I hope you’re having a good day. I am due to have a double mastectomy with TUG flap reconstruction on 22nd November, I’m having all my left axilla lymph nodes removed too as the grade 3 cancer is in some of them too. I’ve finished 6 rounds...
