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Good evening , My mum recently had her pre assessment and due to start paclitaxel weekly on Wednesday. From the meeting me had previously we were told she would have paclitaxel for 12 weeks 1 day a week and trastuzumab once every 3 weeks for a year. During...
Hi everyone, it’s been 6 weeks since my surgery and yesterday I had a letter referring me to the Oncology department for radiotherapy on 19th Sep.. I’m just wondering what happens at your first appointment? Is it just discussing the plan? Do you have...
Hi I was diognosed with high grade positive raptors docs . To day seen my consultant to talk over planes of surgery and best for me is mastectomy . I feel broken told I don’t want reconstruction of my breast . After left room nurse came out leafed and...
Ok - so successful surgery now for radiotherapy & drug treatment. Can anyone advise about which drug they would recommend & any side effects you have experienced. I have a choice of tamoxifen or letrozole - both have potential nasty side effects, but...
Hi all, I'm having radiotherapy this week and I am really surprised at how emotional it is making me feel. I know that it is a good thing and that I am really lucky to live where I live and be able to access this amazing ' belt and braces' treatment...
Hello, I had a right breast cancer diagnosis last year which was hormonal and found by mammogram, I had a lumpectomy and then radiotheraphy in March now on Letrozole for 5 years. On the 8 July I found a large lump in my left breast, I contacted my...
Hi i am after some advice I had a mastectomy of my right breast and DIEP flap using my tummy reconstruction done on 11th August, my new reconstructed breast is much bigger than my other breast I assume due to bruising and swelling etc has anyone been...
Hi ladies I don’t know who else to talk to… I was told that I had a stage 2 BC but the pet scan revealed that there were three spots on my liver. It’s hers2 with lymph node involvement and I am absolutely devastated. I now have to have a brain scan...
Morning! Am triple negative. Have had z5 months chemo, the op and radiotherapy and now they have put me on capecitrabine. Anyone else taken this? Second cycle and it has hit harder than the first. Up all last night with burning hands and feet. Today so...
I wanted to know if anyone else has had to make the decision to have chemo first due to TNBC meaning they will be pushed through early menopause? I am 43 + have been diagnosed with TNBC + today found out that there is cancer in my lymph nodes so I have...
