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Hi, It feels a bit surreal to even be writing this but I’m waiting for the biopsy results after receiving an M5/U5 mammogram and ultrasound result, which I believe is most likely to be breast cancer although no-one has said the word to me yet! I have...
Hello new friends ️ I’m a little out of sorts following my diagnosis yesterday, I’m awaiting an MRI & CT scan to find out more information. All I know is that it’s triple negative, I was told by my nurse not to google it, but I was awake at 3am and...
Hello, I’m 58, post-menopausal, received 2 rounds of chemo & Herceptin including Docetaxel. I’ve found out today from former patients receiving this drug that they have had permanent chemo induced alopecia - their hair has not grown back and they are...
I have been taken off olaparib due to pneumonia. What next? I have been on this for10 months and it’s kept my tnbc metastasis in lungs & brain stable. I m brca1. I have now been told my oncologist has a new plan for me. Anyone else had any experience...
Hello everyone I just thought I would ask a question in here, as it is kind of to do with my breast. I have lung cancer, Ive asked some questions in there and had a great response, but thought someobody many have some other answers in here I have...
Hi all, I am new to this Forum. I am 3 months into taking Letrozole and Adcal as a Vitamin D supplement. I already took magnesium before my magnesium and am continuing to do so. I have experienced lack of sleep as the main problem up until last week...
Hi all. I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer originally about 16yrs ago. At that time I had a partial mastectomy, all lymph nodes removed from my armpit and arm, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, followed by hormone therapy. I was fine for a ten years but...
Hi, had biopsy of left axilla nodes last April which confirmed Grade 3 invasive ductal cancer with altered receptor status to HER2+, 3+ Had Docetaxel & Phesgo (Docetaxel stopped after 5 cycles) from June to December, when I had Axillary Lymph Node Dissection...
Hi, I’m Nicky, im 46 and a mum of 2 beautiful girls. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on 13th July. ER-, PR-, HER2 +. Strange how your entire world. A turn upside down in the matter of a couple of hours … after you hear the words … the lump is cancer...
Hello everyone I am new here so thought I would just introduce myself. I found a lump in my breast back in May and after a drs appointment was referred for a mammogram. 2 weeks later I had the mammogram and a biopsy which I was told looked "highly...
