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I have just been diagnosed with breast cancer. I am in my 30s and second trimester of pregnancy. I am so scared that the treatment is going to harm my baby but know I have to have it for sake of my 22m son. Due to pregnancy I will need a mastectomy and...
Hi everyone, Just starting on this journey. Looking for any advice on vitamins or supplements? Or chemo tips in general! I'm about to start 3 x EC neo-adjuvant chemo next week, then 3 x THP. Triple positive, Stage 2 (just as it's over 2.5cm). Supposedly...
Hi everyone, I am a few months into taking letrazole - and now have the aches in my fingers. Does anyone have any advice on this? And I don't know if I am imagining this, but I seem to feel the cold more - that's a strange one! Good luck to everyone...
Hi everyone on Thursday I was diagnosed with grade 3 triple negative breast cancer.They gave me lots of information which I’m slowly starting to take in. I’m 38 and have 4 girls so really scared and worried what is to come.Having clip fitted Tuesday...
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in August and had surgery (lumpectomy) on my left breast for a tumour together with an area of DCIS nearly 3 weeks ago. I’m hormone receptor positive, HER2 negative and the sentinel node biopsy was negative (so it doesn...
Good Morning, So I got the news I was dreading yesterday. Grade 3 breast cancer. Still waiting on my results from the HER2 test. They have requested an urgent MRI. Then they will be able to come up with a treatment plan. Feel a bit numb today and all...
Hi all. I'm so glad to have found you. I'm newly diagnosed with grade 3 triple negative invasive ductal cancer. I think I'm still in the shell-shocked stage occasionally migrating to the bloody terrified stage. I look forward to learning from you all...
I'm on tamoxifen for at least the next 10 yrs, im 54,....is there any one out there that can tell me what I can and can't eat, coz it's really starting to annoy me now. We all know abt grapefruit, and turmeric, but I know there's more, just heard this...
Every one of us has a date every year whether it be birthday ,wedding etc but unfortunately being in this gang we have a special date to remember where we began our journey. My journey began on 1st October .What was your date ? When at last ,after months...
Hi. I wonder if I can ask for experience from anyone who has had a mastectomy and LD Flap reconstruction **without** implants? I'm about a D/DD cup at the moment and dress size 12 (I'm hardly skeletal!) But speaking with the surgeon today my only...
