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I had my follow up appointment with my oncologist and I felt so dismissed by him. I have triple negative breast cancer, I'm 36 and I only have one more EC to finish chemo. My genetics came back last week and confirmed I have a pathogenic variant on...
Hello everybody my sister just diagnosed with breast cancer, requires surgery and radiotherapy but MRI scan is awaited to confirm this. im think about going private and have started to look at breast surgeons and consultants in Yorkshire and surrounding...
My mums just been diagnosed with breast cancer again, she first had in 2021 and was supposedly given the all clear last summer. I got the biopsy results this morning so haven’t seen oncologist as of yet. I really do not want to deal with the previous...
Hello Ladies hope you're all doing well . I've got one chemo session left and although have used the cold cap I have lost around 40-50% of my hair . Does anybody have any tips on how soon after chemo finishes I can start using products to help my hair...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer on Feb 23rd and had a mastectomy with reconstruction on 31 March. Today I only just got my results from the sentinel node dissection after my appointment was postponed from last week as “my results hadn’t been processed...
Hi all... radiotherapy for only 5 days, but my god it wiped me out ...aching joints, feeling lethargic, couldn't be arsed to do much...very strange feeling, hard to explain. What are the tingly hands about ??? Went on holiday, careful to keep boobs out...
Good morning fellow fighters, I had a lumpectomy and lymph nodes removal a few months ago. The op was successful with clear nodes and a wide clear margin around the 16mm lump. I have TNBC, grade 2. The Oncologist recommended I have 6 rounds of EC to...
Hi guys....I've just been given my blood test results but my neutrophils are low. I might miss my chemo dose on Thursday if they haven't built up when I go for another blood test tomorrow. Any Idea how I can increase them fast? Thank you
Hi all, Freaking out, I’m 30 and have got a 3 month old son, I was diagnosed a few days ago with triple negative IDC and I’m waiting on results from my ct/mri so I can find out my staging/treatment plan but I already know it will be a stage 2/3 minimum...
Hello everyone, my wife had a CT scan and an MRI scan. Thankfully, the cancer has not spread. However, they suspect that she may have another mass in the same breast, which is four times larger than the original mass, if it is cancer. The next biopsy...
