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I had the port inserted yesterday under sedation ready for chemo which starts on Friday, and it has been so so painful. Once the local had worn off the pain was intense and I was up all night trying to manage the pain. I had no sleep. Is this normal?...
Hi everyone. I was recalled after a mammogram at the end of August, Biopsy 18th September which revealed DCIS. I had surgery to remove this on the 8th October. From mammogram to surgery was just six weeks, I can’t fault the service I’ve received from...
Hi I’m away to start chemo - oncologist saying 4 sessions EC then 4 sessions of paclitaxel . This seems to be the standard treatment but they are saying to receive every two weeks rather than every three. i just wondered if anyone else here is on the...
3 years post double mastectomy. Grade 2 ductal & lobular. Hormone therapy 10 years . No chemo or radiotherapy. Husband prostate cancer 7 years ago recently became active again with rising psa. Brother, renal cancer recently metastasised to lungs chemo...
Surgery completed last Monday overnight in hospital, couldn’t walk properly luckily had my granddaughter help me to car, and have some soup when got home, had nurses come in every day to empty drainage bag and do blood pressure, have been for second ct...
I found a lump in June and have been diagnosed with what I think they are saying is triple positive breast cancer. I had cancer cells in some lymph notes. In early September I had a lumpectomy and lymph node clearance. My margins were not clear so on...
Hello Due to have lumpectomy on 5th November … HER2 positive cancer caught early, no lump, picked up on routine mammogram. Surgeon quite confident that radiotherapy and medication will be treatment plan as small area but states that it will be up to...
It’s now been confirmed that I have HER2positive and DCIS in my right breast. These two cancers are in to totally different areas of my breast so I'm having a mastectomy. If the HER2positive is very small and nothing has spread to my lymph nodes is it...
Hi Guys, Writing on behalf of my wife. She (33) was diagnosed with TNBC, having no lymph nodes spread. We got A Wide local excision done and the margins of the surgery were clear with the Sentinel lymph nodes negative. We have a planned chemotherapy...
I finished my 5 day course of radiotherapy a few days ago and as expected the area is getting increasingly pink. I can now see a very clear line delineating the area to which radiation was delivered. What’s worrying me is that this area extends into my...
