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Hi, i recently got my breast cancer diagnosis and treatment will be letrozole and mastectomy, plan was flap reconstruction but I choose not to and had a little struggle to convince them I want a bilateral mastectomy and use prosthetics. I had DCIS in...
Hi all! I will start radiotherapy on 12/02 till 05/03. 15 sessions. I have been awake for 2 hours and it’s 5am. Just a little anxious! After reading about side effects and long term ones. I tell myself that not everybody reacts the same… I have...
Hi , I’m new on here. i recently had WLE and Targeted Axilary dissection. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Grade 2 IDC. following surgery a haematoma developed so I had to have further surgery to evacuate this 2 weeks after initial surgery. since the...
Hi, I am asking for advice or confirmation really. its 3 weeks today since my mastectomy. Left side . I am lucky enough to have been able to work from home after the first week of my op. when I stand after working etc the site of the op is tight, it...
Hi all  I'm currently nearing the end of my chemotherapy treatment for a grade 2 invasive tumour that's HER-2 positive. I've had a mascteomy previously (6 years ago) on my other breast, but didn't need chemotherapy for that side.. So my second road into...
Hello I have been diagnosed with breast cancer this week. I have a large tumour covering my whole breast ( I feel so stupid for not noticing it). The consultant said I will need chemotherapy with the aim of shrinking the tumour to make it operable. Has...
Hello all, I had 15 radiotherapy sessions over three weeks, and on the last day the radiographers told me the side effects would be coming out over the next month, so to keep up with the moisturising. I didn't realise just how painful the burning...
Hi All Can anybody tell me about your experience? I had mastectomy of my right breast. Then had six sessions od chemotherapy along with 18 herceptin injection. My left upper is still very stiff and my hands feels numb. The pain is just constant...
Not been here for a while..hope everyone is doing as well as they can? I have currently been taken off my letrozole and abemicilib, which i was given for breast cancer I had a mastectomy no reconstruction. I've been on them for15 months and already had...
I was diagnosed and treated for lobular BC 2 years ago. It seems to be a type that is hard to detect so I worry that if it comes back I won't know. I had no symptoms and it was picked up on a routine mammogram however I read that this can't be relied...
