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Hi all  I'm currently nearing the end of my chemotherapy treatment for a grade 2 invasive tumour that's HER-2 positive. I've had a mascteomy previously (6 years ago) on my other breast, but didn't need chemotherapy for that side.. So my second road into...
Hello I have been diagnosed with breast cancer this week. I have a large tumour covering my whole breast ( I feel so stupid for not noticing it). The consultant said I will need chemotherapy with the aim of shrinking the tumour to make it operable. Has...
Hello all, I had 15 radiotherapy sessions over three weeks, and on the last day the radiographers told me the side effects would be coming out over the next month, so to keep up with the moisturising. I didn't realise just how painful the burning...
Hi All Can anybody tell me about your experience? I had mastectomy of my right breast. Then had six sessions od chemotherapy along with 18 herceptin injection. My left upper is still very stiff and my hands feels numb. The pain is just constant...
Not been here for a while..hope everyone is doing as well as they can? I have currently been taken off my letrozole and abemicilib, which i was given for breast cancer I had a mastectomy no reconstruction. I've been on them for15 months and already had...
I was diagnosed and treated for lobular BC 2 years ago. It seems to be a type that is hard to detect so I worry that if it comes back I won't know. I had no symptoms and it was picked up on a routine mammogram however I read that this can't be relied...
Dear All, I have been diagnosed with stage 2 lobular cancer; the lump was 13 cm and 10 lymph nodes were also found to be cancerous. I saw my oncologist for the first time last week after having a mastectomy and came away feeling a bit disheartened as...
It is proposed that I am put on Fulvestrant injections and Abemaciclib after being on Letrozole since June 24 but Ct scans have shown further issues beyond the metastasised breast cancer in my bone marrow. I am concerned about the doubling up of side...
Hi, I am 3 weeks post surgery, WLE and SLNB. My results were good, no spread. I was really pleased, however 1 day after results I was completely floored with exhaustion. I didn't move the whole day. As with most cases, the time from recall to results...
Hello All I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to make it to the breast cancer forum! I was diagnosed with Stage 1, Grade 3 HER2+ BC last October I’ve had surgery (2 lumps) and am 5 weeks into chemo - Paclitaxel, Trastuzumab and Zoledronic...
