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Hi. I had a double mastectomy 5 years ago because of Breast Cancer. Now I have Secondary BC - Anxillary lymph nodes, Lung, Liver & Bone metastases. Life stinks but I try to remember there’s always someone worse off than yourself. I have just finished...
Hi, I was diagnosed with breast cancer last week and I need a mastectomy. Huge shock as after my first mastecnomy. I have to chose between reconstruction or implant and wondered if anyone else is in my positon?
As a daughter of a BC survivor I have been under family history monitoring with annual mammograms for the last 10yrs. I had my first scare at 21yrs old and now I am 46yrs old and my time ran out with the routine mammogram in Jan spotting my lobular cancer...
I had my lumpectomy last week along with lymph nodes removal. Had to go back to get seroma extracted as it was causing a lot of pain. It feels full again and causing discomfort again. Spoke to a nurse earlier who said that they can only drain once a week...
I was first diagnosed at 28. Low risk, no genetic links, no obvious reason to have such an early diagnosis. I went through the whole journey being told the likelihood of the cancer coming back was extremely low. Two years after finishing treatment I’m...
On Thursday I got the results of my core biopsy. It's cancer and I need a lumpectomy and radiotherapy. Everything has happened so quickly and it's hard to get my head round
I have BRCA2 and looking for some advice please. I am on the waiting list for risk reducing surgery including a double masectomy and have been looking into reconstruction options. I get kelloid scars and don't feel that the standard DIEP flap surgery...
Hi everyone. I hope I can get any advice, guidance and opinions. I had my last chemo on Friday 13th February. I am very happy to have got to the end, and very thankful that it only took 8 months of treatment to get here I️ had aggressive breast cancer...
I’m about to start 12 weekly sessions of paclitaxel and would be grateful to hear your experiences of it. What shall I expect? I’ve had a HER2+ lump removed and have my last of 4 EC treatments next week. Just to hear how it is/was for you would be really...
I’m 25, and my mum died of breast cancer 3 years ago. The doctors believe it was related to changes due to the menopause, and as she is the only family member to have had breast cancer, they do not believe that there is an increased genetic risk to us...
