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Hiya, I'm new here. Feeling overwhelmed with it all, feeling useless I did a post earlier but don't think I clicked to activate it. I was diagnosed with HER2+ stage2 last August and had a 1.5inc tumour removed in a wide lateral incision operation. I...
Hi - I was diagnosed last week with DCIS in two areas In my left breast. Had third biopsy in between to check whether there is anything else suspicious. This will help decide whether I have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. I was also oestrogen positive so...
HI all, I've been looking around this forum not knowing how to start. I'm not new to the site as last year I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. This was treated with a full hysterectomy followed by radiotherapy. Treatment was completed early October...
Hi, first time posting. I got diagnosed 7th October 23 of grade 3 oestrogen positive cancer in my right breast. Luckily for me I spotted it early and after my lumpectomy and lymph node removal it hadn’t spread to the lymph nodes. I finished my radiotherapy...
My wife has started on a new treatment called capecitibine. She had cancer years ago and got rid of it but last year it came back. She was on the usual chemo but it wasn't working on certain area so she is now on her second week of treatment with a week...
Hi, my name is Trish and I'm due to have surgery on 13th March. I'm having a mastectomy of my right breast. It's all happened so quickly since finding the lump on 9th February. It all came as a shock as my GP didn't think it was anything more than a cyst...
Sorry if this has been asked before but is there anything that helps stop the nausea I started taking tamoxifen on Tuesday and I’ve woke up this morning feeling so sick I haven’t felt this woozy since having my kids when I suffered severe morning sickness...
I have had five sessions of chemo for breat cancer and have started to be anaemic. I dont want a blood transfusion so taking iron tablets and trying to eat more iron. Any recommendations as I have six weeks to my lumpectomy operation and so being anaemic...
Hi I was diagnosed with breast cancer December 2022 and went on to have two operation, chemo and then radiotherapy. My chemo finished in July last year but I still don't feel great. I started to feel better a few months ago but now I feel like having...
Hi all Just wondering if anyone has been switched from tamoxifen to letrozole due to being post-menopausal. Just wondering what the procedure is. My GP said they will take me off tamoxifen for a while and then do a blood test and a scan before I start...
