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Just looking for your experiences re nausea and vomiting on chemo Has anyone taken the antibiotics sickness tablets from the day before chemo and has it helped ? Onco said it wouldn’t do any harm but also didn’t think it would necessarily help but just...
Hi I went for my biopsy 3 weeks ago , I was told after ultrasound that it was cancer and the biopsy would just confirm how aggressive it is, I've still not received results, and now being told that it could be another week or two before back! How long...
Is anyone on Palbociclib? I have just taken my first dose, also taking Letrozole. Just wondering how you get on with it?
Hi I was diagnosed last week. Grade 3 triple negative breast cancer. I have my bone scan, mri and ct scan all booked for this week and hopefully I will get the results next Friday. The waiting is what I'm finding the hardest, I just want to get started...
I’m due my first EC Chemo tomorrow along with cold cap and injections to knock out my ovaries. I feel very unprepared. Is there anything I need to do beforehand or during? also I know all the side effects in the book and can’t control them so it’s the...
I have a her2 lobular cancer, I’m having 6 rounds of chemo before my operation lumpectomy .. I have had a scan and it’s reduced to practically nothing so why do I need the last two chemo sessions can they not just operate sooner if it’s almost gone ....
I was diagnosed 10 weeks ago and everything happened so fast. I couldn't keep up. From a biopsy to diagnosis from diagnosis to surgery from surgery to results from results to treatment. I was diagnosed as stage 2 put on Tamoxifen for ten years and currently...
I am age 50, pre-menopausal. ER/PR 100% positive, HER negative. I got some 2nd opinions but there are 2 different opinions. Either a) Chemo (then radiation then hormone therapy), or b) Skip Chemo (as low Oncotype) and do radiation plus hormone therapy...
I had a lumpectomy in August 2021. I’m taking Letrozole as part of a trial. My age, grade and tripe of cancer meant I was suitable for the trial and I avoided radiotherapy. I started Letrozole in November 2020 and I initially had joint pain which subsided...
Hi, I am 50 years old and was diagnosed with grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma with high grade DCIS lymphovascular invasion positive ER 8/8 PR 8/8 and HER2 positive 8 weeks ago, 6 weeks ago I had a lumpectomy to my right breast and have heals well, I...
