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Hi there. I'm new to this forum after receiving a diagnosis of invasive tubular carcinoma in my right breast yesterday. I'm likely to opt for therapeutic mammoplasty rather than a lumpectomy so surgery won't be until May, then will likely be followed...
Lorraine had her blood test on 10th February . How long have people waited for gene test results?
DCIS recurrence and mastectomy choices Hello all, I am new to the site, though not new to the DCIS journey, and not sure how to post things. I am 63 and have just been diagnosed with a recurrence of DCIS, only small at 10mm, but as 8 years ago...
Hello everyone I'd appreciate thoughts. I have been fairly newly diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer which has spread to the lung (small patches). Not to bone. I'm 68. I'm concerned that since reporting to the GP in January I'm now mid April...
Hello Before Christmas I found a lump and had bloody discharge from my right breast . All scans looked ok, I had continued to have discharge so on my follow up 2 weeks ago the hospital said they wanted to take out all the ducts. I had that done on Friday...
Hi folks, sorry to be discussing such an unpleasant subject. I was diagnosed with breast cancer about a year ago. My cancer was hormone positive grade 3. I’ve had all the treatments, two surgeries, lumpectomy and node removal, chemo, radiotherapy and...
After what my lovely Consultant called "successful surgery" which was wide local excision of Lobular plus Simple DCIS Cancer with full axillary excision of lymph nodes (with 23 out of 25 nodes removed being cancerous), I am facing an appointment with...
So I’ve been to a cancer well-being event today was great talking to people that understand what I’m going through. i was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in June 2023, for the rest of that year and all of 2024 I had treatment, including chemo,...
Hi All. My 7th treatment has really wiped me out. It should have been my 8th treatment but I missed one due to side effects (possibly from immunotherapy, poss the chemo). Has anyone else been like this the further they get into treatment? I have literally...
Hi, I went for a routine mammogram in November, called back for repeat mammogram and ultrasound in December, results received January - 10 mm lump and infected lymph node found. February had surgery to remove lump and total lymph node clearance. Had CT...
