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Hi all I’ll finish chemo mid may hopefully going abroad in July can anyone advise on travel insurance
Hi all I thought I was beginning to feel a bit better emotionally about my diagnosis of breast cancer and cancer in lymph nodes even although I was awaiting CT scan results. Yesterday I was relieved to be advised by BCN by phone that the CT scan showed...
How will metastatic care last? Pain in lower abdomen, which is sharp and long lasting. Could it be reacting to the tumours ?
Hi lovely people, this has been bothering me for a while, am keen to find out if anyone else had to do this and if so why and how you feel or felt at the time or now? I wasn’t warned that I would be expected to get up out of the bed which I’d been wheeled...
Hey I’m from Derry in Ireland have two teenage kids and three stepsons all under 13 got my diagnosis last week and still trying to get it sink in. I know it’s happening but it still feels like I’m observing it happen to someone else. anyone else feel...
I have Grade 2 Her2+ lobular cancer. I have had a mastectomy,12 weekly doses of Taxol followed by 15 infusions of Herceptin. Before I started Herceptin I was ‘borderline’ and I trundled on till it was stopped at 15 because the vef had gone down. I...
Hi everyone. Has anyone out there experienced heart problems whilst on Herceptin? I was taken off treatment for a month back in June 2020 and was prescribed an Ace Inhibitor and Beta Blocker. Unfortunately after a routine Echocardiogram in December I...
I started with my new cycle of Perjeta/Herceptin and taxol last Friday. I did ok with the Perjeta but had bad reaction during Herceptin infusion (shivering, high temperature) so they stopped treatment. Plan is to try again next week which is a little...
Hi having my mastectomy tomorrow at aged 40. Why do I feel so calm and unnerved
I am due to start radiotherapy on the 10/5/22 I am very anxious about this I don't know what to expect Can anyone help please
