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I am suffering with anxiety and depression after completing my breast cancer journey and just wondered if anybody on the forums had used a psychiatrist and if they found it helped. I have tried most things and wasn’t sure where to turn to next. Any help...
Diagnosed with stage 2 grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma 25/11/14 had breast conserving surgery 23/12/24 on left side and reduction on right side with sentinel node biopsy. Results on 7/1/25 revealed that they removed 24mm tumour with margin of tissue...
Hello. I had a lumpectomy of a very small tumour on 16th Jan with 4 lymphs removed and I am now all clear. I see the oncologist tomorrow - as I'm 81 I hope to avoid any further treatment. I'm writing because I had a large seroma drained this morning and...
Hi all I’m 46 and was diagnosed in October Grade 2 ER + HR2 negative had lumpectomy & senital lymph node biopsy in November and was gutted to hear that they found cancer in one of the 2 lymph nodes they removed. Was given choice to have lymph node clearance...
Hello! i'm Dee from Coventry, aged 60. I was just diagnosed with stage 1 in a 4cm lump in my right breast and the mammogram has found 2 on the left breast so I'm bookedin for bipsies of those and also my armpits next Tuesday. It feels like its all happpening...
Hi. I’ve just been diagnosed with mets in my spine after 25 yrs clear of breast cancer. This was discovered after a spell of breathlessness . To say I’m in shock is an understatement. It’s like everything I had planned has been snatched from me. I...
Hi - I’m a week and a half in from having a lumpectomy and the removal of three nodes. Diagnosis to surgery was 10 days so it has been a whirlwind. I’m Grade 1, Level 2. Currently doing my best to rest which is hugely frustrating but torally understand...
Hi everyone new here hoping to get answers without using the dreaded google
Hello everyone! I was first diagnosed at the end of August with. DCIS and invasive cancer. Ive had two ops under general anaesthetic, a third one to remove an unclear margin under local - after which the surgeon told me I’d be ‘cured’. Last week I...
Hello I am new here, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in December, we have BRCA2 in the family, I had lumpectomy and lymph node biopsy just before Christmas, which came back with high Ki-67, so just started Chemo, and I feel a bit worse for...
