Hi everybody, I am new to this forum and a little unsure how to use it, so I hope I don't make any bloomers! I will give a little background on how I came to be in this position with secondary breast cancer. I had TNBC in 2019, treated with surgery...
Hi everyone with secondary, has anyone been on a drug trial that they are finding hard to deal with the side effects? I am now on round 9 and its working ! My cancer has stopped growing and inactive since i started. Which is good i have it in left lung...
Hi, I was diagnosed with stage 4 April 2025 (primary April 2020]. Mets in posterior calvarium, spine, sacrum, pelvis, femoral head, rib. I‘m on anastrazole, started with ribociclib but got interstitial lung injury so now on palbociclib. On the positive...
Hello - I was diagnosed with secondary lobular cancer just before christmas. I had primary BC in 2017 and had right side mastectomy and chemo. I learned it is extensive in bones, lesions in liver and spots in right lung and lymph nodes (lots). My oncologist...
Hi, I was diagnosed de novo in June 2024 I was put on Ribociclib but it didn’t agree with me and was put on Abemaciclib which I have had no problems with along with Letrozole and Denosumab injection, they have been a dream other than feeling tired but...
My wife has brain cancer which has metastasized from breast cancer. She has at least 5 lesions, the biggest is around 2.5cm. She had 5 sessions of full brain radiotherapy and since then she is constantly fatigued. It’s around 8 weeks since the radiotherapy...
Gosh! Heads in a spin! 20 years ago - papilloma removed 14 years ago DCIS two lots of surgery then radiotherapy 4 years ago mastectomy - oestrogen positive, lymph nodes clear 4 weeks ago pains in legs and mastectomy site - blood tests showed possible...
I have finished my chemotherapy now. When I am resting in a chair or lying down in bed I have a strange feeling that I am lying on golf balls or stones for want of a better description. I have asked the registrar oncologist the last 2 times I have seen...
Hi all my wife has been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer and it is in the lung with extra capsular spread and its outside the Lymph nodes capsule. Oncologist said she could have 3-5 years to live, could be shorter or longer. I can give more detailed...
Any advice on how to deal with peripheral neuropathy. How long do people find it lasts for
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