Hi all. I have just started Piqray with Fulvesnt (think that is how you spell it) So far the side effects are fairly mild apart from the fatigue which has been relentless this last few days. I don't think there is many people on it as you need to have...
Hi, I have secondary breast cancer which has spread to my bones. Started with pains in my legs, which have settled now to more of a discomfort, but I do have pains in my chest and recently in the side of my head. I have started Ribociclib and fulvestrant...
Hi everyone, My mum has had breast cancer 3 times over the last few years, and unfortunately, they've now found a lesion in her brain that they think has travelled from her breast. They are looking into the option of surgery or stereotactic radiotherapy...
Hi All, Hope youre doing ok. I just wondered anyone had been in the above treatment and how they found it. Ive been on it now for 6 months and am finding very difficult. I've recently started feeling very very dizzy with tinnitus and shaking hands and...
I’m currently taking Palbociclib and Letrozole, should now be on my 7th cycle. Unfortunately my Neutrophils have dropped too low so now treatment has stopped for a week. Anyone else had the same and how long off treatment did it take to recover? thank...
After three rounds of chemo and Phesgo, I had my first PET scan to see if treatment was actually working. COMPLETE METABOLIC RESPONSE. ️ The cancer in my liver and bones, which once lit up like a Christmas tree on the PET scan, is now showing no detectable...
hi, two weeks ago I had what they tell me is a big dose of radiotherapy to the cancer in my femur, sacrum and pelvis. Since then I seem to have gone through a whole range of symptoms. From about day 3 the pain started but they gave me oro morph which...
Hi I'm now 7 mths down the line from being diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in the bone have had 1 strong dose of Radiotherapy and on Palbociclib and Anastrazole feeling so fed up with having to take the meds with side affects and having to go...
I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer nearly 5 years ago stage 3 HER2+. Had a single mastectomy, lymph nodes removed, radiotherapy, got lymphoedema Presco for 18 months followed by 22 rounds of Kadcyla. More lymph nodes removed from opposite armpit. Cancer...
Hi, I'm reaching out I suppose to just lighten the weight in my head. It's been a whirlwind over the last few weeks. I am 55 years old and have BRCA 1 gene, I was offered a risk reduction mastectomy 10 years ago but refused. Over the last year, I had...
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