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Hi I'm really struggling to process my cancer journey. I had bilateral, invasive lobular in one breast and invasive ductal cancer in the other. I was lucky to keep both breasts. I've just finished 4 sessions of chemo and have radiotherapy lined...
My daughter in law has just been diagnosed with stage 2 triple negative breast cancer. She is 30 and only got married to my son this year. I am worried sick and want to help them both but I’m worried about making things worse. She has said she doesn’t...
New here, but not new to Macmillan, and eternally grateful for them and for my own designated nurse. I'm here this morning after another night with about 3 hours sleep - deep aching leg pain in my thigh muscles - bearable during the day but much worse...
I’m struggling to stay positive as when I went back for the results of my surgery, I’ve been told that I need to go back for more surgery as cancer was found in the one lymph node the surgeon took. At first I was more bothered about going back for more...
I know I'm Scottish but I do speak plain English - not sure my oncologist or surgeon do though! It's all techno babble and letters of the alphabet which mean nothing to me. The letters they send are no less confusing! I eventually got annoyed with them...
Hi, mum mum has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. We have to wait a week for biopsy results to determine treatment, they gave us a leaflet for primary breast cancer but we were told there were a couple of lymph nodes affected, does that mean it...
I have had 3 sessions of PC now and on the third session (just over a week ago) I had a reaction to the paclataxil. This week I have had new sensations: heart palpitations, pulsatile tinnitus and intermittent strange sensation, poss nerve related/pulsing...
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Hi. I'm wondering if anyone has the same thing that I'm experiencing. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. Treatment wasn't as bad as I anticipated, even though I had a mastectomy. However, the past couple of days I have had a serious itch across...
Had 7 rounds of radiotherapy 2 didn’t work as they couldn’t position my left arm as to painful, had another ct scan today sat to see if they are getting right place, am feeling pretty awful at moment what with getting over chest infection and the tiredness...
