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Hello, Is there anybody that can tell me their experience of heart monitoring through undergoing treatment. I am currently on 7th round of weekly paciticle Chemo & 3rd 3 weekly Herceptin injections. I had an echo scan in January, this was before starting...
Hello On the 26 January 2023 I was diagnosed with Triple Positive BC (Oestrogen, Progesterone & HER2 receptive) (30mm), then they suspect that I have a very small met in my liver (too small to biopsy) I have had 4 cycles of EC (given every three weeks...
Hi Everyone, after GP referral etc the Ultrasound of my area of concern/biposy early Jan identified a 80mm Grade 2 IDC ER/PR positive HER2 negative with nothing showing up on my lymph nodes on the Ultrasound. This was all super positive until I had an...
Hi everyone Thought I’d jump on here so I can pretty much let off a bit of steam, because I know you’ll understand. My last six months in short… Mum was diagnosed with a brain tumour in Feb 2022, she deteriorated massively in Oct 2023. Sept...
Hello! I recently had a stereostatic biopsy of an area of grouped calcifications found on my two yearlymammogram. Went to see my consultant yesterday and he informed me that the samples came back as B1 - normal breast tissue and he expected B2 ideally...
Hi had mastectomy and reconstruction using Lata doris in June 2023 had large seroma which was drained few times, still feel fluid feeling but consultant couldn’t see it got ultra sound scan seroma seems to have healed but I feel under scar hard and feels...
Hi I am so stressed, we started a claim after my diagnosis. They rang me yesterday and asked if had anything like this before and I said yes, which isn’t really true as it was to do with breastfeeding and a milk duct was blocked. But now I don’t think...
Good morning all, I am a male aged 53 and just diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm aware this is usually a ladies unfortunate affliction but I just wondered if I could get any advice or recommendations? Thank you very much x
Hi sorry seem to be on here nearly every other with another symptom got painful hot soles of feet anyone got any tips to help stop it making it painful to walk
Are we the same people that we were? my husband tells me I have changed since having cancer, I'm not sure if he means that is a positive or negative way. I am not sure that I am the same person, I don't feel the same but I never told anyone about my cancer...
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