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Hi everyone i was glad to finish an accelerated dose of EC chemo (fortnightly) and move on to fortnightly Paclitaxel. The first 36 hours after I got home from the infusion o felt fine, in fact quite productive, did a days work and normal domestic stuff...
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Hi I'm really struggling with side effects of Docetaxil and I'm considering telling my Oncologist no more. I've already undergone mastectomy, 4 rounds of EC and 1 round of Docetaxil. I'm to have 15 rounds of radiotherapy. I just don't think I can take...
Hi, I was diagnosed in December 24, had a lumpectomy in Jan 25 and I’m about to undergo a course of Radiotherapy as well as being on Tamoxifen. It’s all positive as they op was successful in getting it all and there was non present in my lymph nodes...
Hello everyone, My mum was diagnosed on the 28th January this year with invasive ductal carcinoma in left breast (stage 1) She needed a VAE which was done 2 weeks later and came back negative (Yay) We waited 2 weeks for the results of these then referral...
Having been through the process of mastectomy, hormone treatment, numerous scans and xrays, radiotherapy, waits etc over last 14 months I went to the oncology dept yesterday and was virtually signed off apart from 3 monthly bone infusions and 7 years...
Hi all, I had my main treatment (chemo/mastectomy/radio) in 2022 and then was on abemaciclib for 2 years and am still on Letrozole and Zoladex and also zoledronic acid IV. I find I still wake a lot in the night particularly to go for a wee several times...
Hi am new here and not very computer literate.I have bracca gene and 3 grown sons and 2 grandchildren have invasive carcinoma of ducts left breast plan chemotherapy and then bilateral mastectomy.Feel like have so upset my family and feel bit broken. Any...
Hi, I'm nearly at the end of this treatment glad but worried too if recurrence once not taking it. I wondered do you feel more tired at the end of it does anyone know?
Initially I was going to have a lumpectomy, but the grade 2 lump was attached to the skin and distorted most of the breast. The biopsy showed cancer was Oestrogen based and Her2 +. I am now recovering after the mastectomy 4 days ago, with an Activac pump...
