Hi Just started targeted therapy and fulvrstrant today. Just wondering if anyone has tried herbal medicine alongside, or if anyone has been advised not to? Very interested in it , but didn't know if good idea, or whether to ask professional advice...
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed in July 2021stage 4 and have been looking ever since for support for my partner but there seems to be very little available. I'm looking for a buddy for my girlfriend for sharing optimistic and mutual support with laughs...
hi everyone I just been told that I have secondarys in my mastectomy site possible lung, I start epirubicin chemo just over a week ago and I've started with a headache anyone else had this? Jules xx
Hi I was diagnosed back in May with lung mets. I have never been diagnosed with primary breast cancer, so it was a shock. At the mammogram they identified a significant tumour in my right breast (which I had found as a lump and gone to the gp with...
Good Evening to everyone. I hope you are all feeling as well as you can. I was looking for anybody’s experiences on this. I was diagnosed with early BC in August last year and underwent wide local excision, removal of one lymph node, chemo, radiotherapy...
I have incurable triple negative breast cancer with mets in shoulder girdle affecting the chest wall soft tissue and muscles. Bone mets in ribs, sternum, clavicle, sternum and now active on the opposite side to the original cancer for which I had a mastectomy...
I been depressed this week and have felt very down and lonely and tonight my husband had said “what’s the point of surviving for the next 10 years if you are going to feel depressed all the time? An he also said he wants me back the way I was before my...
Hi I'm new to this forum. Had rib metastasis for 18 months, current letrozole not working, been offered chemo (tablet) but I'm very reluctant as I've had a good few infections already this year and I'm pretty drained so don't want to take the risk. I...
I have just come to the end of 6 cycles of Docetaxel and am continuing with hormone injections three weekly. I now have a dull ache in the bottom of my rib cage. I am terrified that my plurel infusion, which caused my diagnosis of Secondary breast cancer...
Hello everyone.. Not an easy topic for anyone and I am not planning to dash off any time soon but fully aware my life expectations are shorter th3n i would wish foelr and have some idea of a time after a discussion with specialist.. although No one...
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