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Hi I have very sensitive skin to plasters and dressings and wondered if any of you have any advice please? My biopsy and breast marker dressings have caused very red and sore areas where the adhesive is and one area has broken the skin. It is on my records...
Hi everyone. Im a 45 year old single mum. Im currently on a double 2WW one for Bowel and one for Breast. My Breast appointment is on Monday and I have been coping by keeping busy with family ect. Then on Friday My doctor rang to say my FIT test was very...
Tomorrow I have week 6 of 12 weeks of Chemo for Brest Cancer. I have been using a cold cap( tolerable) but as my hair has started to fall out( not in clumps but generally all over(i have very thick hair) should I continue to use the Cold Cap which adds...
my name is Chloé and i just finished all my chimo and radio back in february .. it was the hardest half a year of my life .. i thought i will die .. i didn’t know it can be ok all in all .. now my hair growing back .. it came back curly this time )) ...
Had my PICC line inserted on Thursday and had 1st treatment on Friday. Saturday the clip had opened & had to have the line flushed. No problems following this. However tonight in bed (Sun) I started with really bad pain in my neck. There is no swelling...
Hello. I was stage 2a lobular breast cancer. I’m on letrozole and zoledronic acid, completed radiation in january and started ribociclib 400mg in February. I managed 2 cycles and my ALT levels increased to nearly 200. After a break I was restarted at...
Morning I'm about to start. Radiotherapy next week after completing my chemotherapy. Bit scared. Any advice would ne much appreciated
Hi, is anyone else having this treatment
I was diagnosed last September with metastatic breast cancer with spread to my right lung. I was half expecting to be diagnosed at some point as both my mum and my maternal grandmother had breast cancer, but just wasn't expecting the diagnosis to come...
Hi, have been on neoadjuvant Letrezole for 10 months and now (after 2nd opinion) have just had pre assessment appointment for Lumpectomy surgery in next 6 weeks. I am SO terrified of hospitals and operations that even now I am considering refusing...
