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Hi. I.was.diagnosed with breast cancer in January and February I had a.lumpectomy. Then in March I had five days of higher radiotherapy. Feeling g low and uncomfortable with my body. Any body feel the same? X
Hi all, I was diagnosed in feb with breast cancer in my left breast. Scans, biopsies and mammograms state it’s not in the other one and there’s no other cancer in the body. Im due to have a single mastectomy with immediate reconstructive surgery and...
Hi, I finished chemo six weeks ago and my hair is starting to grow back. However, it very fine baby hair and it’s not growing everywhere. Mostly the back. Should I shave it into a grade one to help the growth or does this not work. Could use some advice...
Roughly a week ago I noticed a white speck or dot on my nipple right on the end, there is only one and it looks like a white head that you get on skin elsewhere really. I'm so scared this could be some kind of cancer of the milk duct or Paget's disease...
Hi. I'm new to this. So not really sure how to start x
Hi have had lumpectomy and sentinel biopsy, what chemotherapy should I expect and how many, is radiotherapy expected too?
So it's been a week since my surgery. I'm doing ok, dressing comes off today. In some pain but not as bad as I thought. My worse problem is back sleeping! I have a v pillow a lumbar pillow a wedge pillow and I just can't get comfortable!!!I'll go to sleep...
Typical Libra me, can't make up my mind about anything lol. Turns out some of my tumour removed from the breast was HER negative as expected from the biopsy, however some of it was HER positive so I need the expected 5/6 months chemo for the negative...
Hi ,I maybe shouldn’t be in this group and hope I’m not tempting fate but been browsing to see if anyone had similar symptoms and I’m right to be concerned .About 8 weeks ago I became aware of a few hard ridge like lumps in the upper part of my right...
Hi all Hope you’re all as well as possible As the title says I feel awful My main treatment which concluded with RT finished at the end of January ( I got my diagnosis Jan 22) and I’m now on Prostap and letrozole I feel about 100 years old , every...
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