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Hello, I'm debating if I should get a nipple reconstruction or a 3d tattoo done. Can anyone recommend anyone in London that does the tattoos? Thanks
Hi everyone. Just wondering if anyone else has suffered with itching after mastectomy? I had my op 2 weeks ago and have recovered really well in all other respects apart from in the last few days suddenly becoming hypersensitive to anything even clothes...
I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in November 2021 and started chemotherapy on Christmas Eve. After 3 cycles the treatment was stopped as the lump was not responding clinically and I was given a lumpectomy. I then had to have a re-excision...
Hi all I'm going on holiday to Turkey in 2 weeks time and wondering if I need a letter from the doctors to say I'm wearing a breast form for going through airport security and any other advice for traveling would be appreciated firstime away since my...
Hi This is a bit weird, never done anything like this before. Well, I had my first mammogram in April and was called back. You have that element of it'll be fine but with that nagging What if. Long story short, it was DCIS. As I can see from a lot...
Hello, I’ve recently had lumpectomy & re-excision & now awaiting mastectomy. Has anyone tried or know anyone who’s tried Rife therapy? www.cancerresearchuk.org/.../rife-machine-and-cancer
Hi, I was given a diagnosis of Invasive Lobular, grade 2 HER 2 + on 18th August. They did MRI, CT and body scan at initial consultation, I was told that they have found a mass on my ovaries. I have had an MRI on pelvis + stomach and awaiting a gynea...
Hello. I finished my breast cancer treatment in late 2020. And am on Letrozole for 5 years. My question is after mastectomy and chemotherapy both neo adjuvant and then Paclitaxel, am I still classed as immune compromised. I want to book spring booster...
Feeling quite anxious as I will be starting radiotherapy on the 5th Sept for 15 doses, has been a delay (long story) as I had chemotherapy Jan to May, then lumpectomy and 6 nodes removed on 24th June, not a complete response to the TCHP chemo so I started...
Hello everyone i am not really new as I first joined 2 months ago but somehow forgot how to login and until now had not worked out how to rejoin. I really have felt such turmoil that I didn’t have the mental capacity to work out what I had done wrong...
