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Hi. I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer on 17th October. I start chemo on 14th November. I am 59. My mother died of breast cancer aged 36. Is there anyone here with the same cancer who would be willing to share their experience, please? Many...
hi i started chemo last Tuesday and it hasn’t been going too well. I had a reaction to the GCSF ( filgastrim ) injection which meant I ended up in A&E for a while and oncologists have said no more injections. And for the last two days I have been experiencing...
Hi all. I am 7 weeks post WLE and SLNB i finally had my results yesterday. i have had the known and an unknown smaller tumour removed with clear margins. They had taken one lymph node which had cancer. They have sent part of the tumour for Oncotype...
Hi, no judgement please. I've finished treatment for breast cancer and am now in remission. I feel a bit washed out and drawn. I've been thinking about having some botox just to give me a bit of a lift and boost my confidence. I lost all my hair and although...
Hello I was diagnosed in Jan with breast cancer and had my first chemo to start shrinking the tumour last Tues. Docetaxel and Phesgo. I'm stunned by how quickly I have lost my energy, I have a physical job and am feeling a total lightweight as I cannot...
I had lumpectomy and lymph node removal 4 years ago and the medication I've been taking is definitely the worse part. I have been through the whole lot...letrozole, tamoxifen, exemestane and am now on anastrozole. The first three had terrible side effects...
ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. My mother had a lumpectomy 6 weeks ago and has had three abscess in that time. The last drained 24 hours ago. She’s due to start radiotherapy next Thursday but is 79 , exhausted and the breast is very inflamed...
Well, it looks as if I might be back on the roller coaster again. Having had a right mastectomy for a local recurrence a couple of years ago and having had the full works of chemo, 3 surgical procedures, targeted and hormone therapy prior to that, I...
This is my very first posting. It's 1 year ago today when that dreaded letter dropped through the letterbox! The day it came was on my 66th birthday and the day after I retired!!!. The letter was recalling me after a routine mammogram. I had to wait...
Hello everyone, I’m new here, I was diagnosed last July, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, still having herceptin every 3 weeks, but luckily I was diagnosed early, so it had not spread my question is, since I have had to stop HRT is there anything...
