I am posting here for the first time because my mum has been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer spread to bones. She waited over 3 months for a ct scan result to find out this information. She received an appointment at Addenbrooks hospital which...
Just joined the community as have recently been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer. Having side effect problems with exemastane especially lack of appetite. Any suggestions, please
Hi peeps As discussed above, I have been diagnosed with secondary cancer and just wondered if there is anyone on here that is in a similar position please? I am due to see the oncologist on the 10/7. I really do not want any further chemo as it caused...
I’m undergoing investigations to check for bowel cancer. I had breast cancer during Covid, and was given the all clear almost 4 years ago. Now this problem has appeared and I don’t know what to think. I couldn’t tolerate tamoxifen, and after a while I...
Diagnosed January 2025. My previous travel insurance covered me because the flights were booked September 2024. Now needing to find insurance. Not sure whether to have annual or single trip. Travelling to the USA, flights only. Anybody have any advice...
Hi... I'm secondary breast cancer in bones and liver. I'm stable at moment after 45 weekly paclitaxel. However I'm having a short chemo break after last CT shows I'm stable. However I'm now suffering with awful nausea and sore tummy. Anyone else had this...
Hello everyone, Im new to here, I was first diagnosed 2019 grade 2 Her2 positive breast cancer and 5 years later it returned in my sternum and a nodule on my lung when I was pregnant. I had 13 paclitaxol weekly through my pregnancy, had my baby girl in...
Think my cancer is spreading to my lungs,too scared to go to the oncologist.
I’m new here, recently diagnosed. I had a lumpectomy in 2010, with clear margin and no spread to lymph glands, so just radiotherapy as a precaution. Five years of mammograms were clear. Meanwhile had problems with sciatica, osteoarthritis of the right...
After a rollercoaster few months following a secondary breast cancer diagnosis initially in my lymph nodes I was told this had cleared after only eight sessions of chemotherapy but I was then told that I had small brain metastasis so needed a different...
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