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Hi all, I’m after some thoughts please, I have been diagnosed with pre cancer cells and the consultant says they need to expand the area and give me radiotherapy or I can have a mastectomy and won’t need radiotherapy I have had a benign lump years ago...
Hello, I (so far) have high grade dcis but they’re not sure if that’s all as very dense breasts, so having mri today. i am fully expecting there to be more, i have a lump in my armpit (although nothing on ultrasound last month) and i have in the past...
Hi all, I feel a bit lost. Last year, I was diagnosed with ER/PR+ breast cancer, underwent a mastectomy, put in menopause, and started treatment with Decapeptyl + Exemestane. Follow-up appointments are scheduled every six months, including blood/marker...
I have two cancerous lumps in my breast. Consultant says I need a CT scan as my results weren’t typical of breast cancer, so checking incase it’s from somewhere else. She thinks it’s highly unlikely, has anyone else experienced this situation. I can deal...
I had a friend visit me the other day. She said she never thinks of the future, ever. She thinks only of the past and feels grateful for everything. She thinks of the present and says Thank you God. She spoke from her heart cause it entered mine. I no...
I was diagnosed beginning of September with grade 2 invasive breast cancer er+ her2- and have has surgery and no spread to lymph nodes and so only need radiotherapy and then tamoxifen so although everything very quick and very positive I now feel like...
Hi all o was diagnosed this a month ago and google is not my friend I do t really understand it as I’ve not met my oncologist the breast clinic said it’s the most common cancer, but it’s also a curable one Stage 2 in breast - grade 3 in lymph node...
Dear BC family I had a lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy in September and at my follow up appointment I was so pleased to receive the news that they got all the nasty stuff, with good margins. Lymph nodes were clear too. Whoop. However as the...
Hi there, Just wondering if anyone is going through marital difficulties as well as dealing with cancer? I think I'm at the end of my tether with my relationship which is hard to deal with as well as cancer!
Hi this is the first time I have reached out for help. Discovered breast cancer early August, had lumpectomy and 5 lymph nodes removed. All positive, so they say. Tumour removed with good margin, no cancer in lymph nodes. Finished radiotherapy 6 weeks...
