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Newly diagnosed, will be having mastectomy. All of a dither about reconstruction. Running and swimming are very important to me both as fitness and social activities. Anyone have any comments about sport with or without reconstruction? (i'm 61 size...
Hi everyone. I am almost halfway through paclitaxel chemo and I'm starting to think about upcoming radiotherapy. Does anyone know how the number of treatments are decided? I know that some have 5 sessions and others 10 -15 sessions and to be honest, 5...
Hi all, Just introducing myself and wondering if anyone else had started Tamoxifen before radiotherapy? I was diagnosed with grade 2 invasive ductal breast cancer last October, ER positive, HER2 negative, in my left breast. I had breast-conserving...
Hi all, I had my mastectomy in March last year. I have been on letrozole since August and Abemaciclib since November. I'm now starting to get lots of aches and pains in my legs and joints. I also still have pain and numbness on the side of my mastectomy...
Breast cancer benign tumour treatment
I had MRI on Saturday, my nurse tells me the reports are looked at on a Wednesday, I’ve had a phone call this morning with an appointment having been made to see my doctor/consultant today …. I’m now petrified as this quick turnaround only makes me fear...
Hi, I had a lumpectomy in October and this was followed up with radiotherapy in December/January, plus hormone therapy. Recently I have noticed tightness and pain on stretching my arm up, it’s in my underarm which I’ve been told is cording. I’ve also...
Hello everyone, I was diagnosed with breast cancer last Friday I’ve since had MRI and now await the results…. I feel physically sick with worry, not sleeping etc etc is there anything anyone knows of that can help with this please?
I had a lumpectomy and lymph node biopsy yesterday I was just wondering how long people were off work with this sort of thing and when did they drive.
Hi I had mastectomy 2 year ago and did buy bras with pocket for prosthesis which are not cheap and do use them After my first bout of breast cancer 14 year ago when I had skin sparing masectomy I bought lots of pretty underwear, probably to help me...
