Hi everyone, I'm new here, I had right side breast cancer in 2006 had all the treatment and a mastectomy all was good for 12 years, then in June 2018 I coughed and my left hip cracked!! Went to hos
tal was told I had secondary breast cancer with bone mets, I had broken my hip and fractured my fema! My cancer had come back in my lung, pelvis, abdomen and spine the last few months my reconstruction seemed to get smaller, had a ultrasound today and was told it has ruptured, I have already seen a surgeon as I was worried about it and he has said he won't r
o my reconstruction because of my bones, but today I was told it will need to be removed, I'm in a complete turmoil and don't know which way to turn I'm worried they will remove it and not redo it? Has anyone had this experience ? Xxxx
Hi Clare52
I am sorry you find yourself here but welcome to our community. I am one of the community champions and I also have metastatic breast cancer. Mine is TNBC that had spread to my liver and I have been living with it since 2022. It must have been awful to find you had extensive mets thanks to an unexpected fracture, and I hope you have been doing well on treatment for that. It sounds like you have been living in the knowledge of secondary cancer for 6 years. It just shows what modern treatments can do.
I am sorry your implant has ruptured and they propose to take it out without replacing it. I don’t have any understanding of what extra risks a replacement would add to the surgery you need to have to remove it, and I think all you can do is ask them to explain and challenge their thinking if the arguments seem weak. One would hope there is consideration of your wishes in there somewhere. I can understand if needs to be removed as it presumably poses a risk in its own right.
Wishing you all the best.
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