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Hi everyone I was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2013. ive recently been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. it came as a massive shock to me. yesterday I started targeted therapy, Palbociclib 125mg and Letrozole. I’m trying to find out how...
I started Eribulin after trying all other treatments for secondary breast cancer in sternum and shoulder lymph and am really struggling with pain in rib cage and low mood and change in my personality, has anyone else struggled on Eribulin, I’m close to...
Good Evening all, I’m just wondering if there’s any one of here with Breast mets in the urinary bladder? How they feel and what was your course of treatment? I’ve had breast cancer for around 5 years, 3 of them with not much trouble. However over...
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, has anyone had a bone biopsy taken from vertebrae? I was told I may need one and understand they are extremely painful but you can request sedation?
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...
Hi all I have just been told my treatment palbociclib is being changed to capecitabine due to progression in my femur that was initially found in a scan in October 24. My understanding from ct and mri scans was that palbociclib was effective in the...
I have secondary metastatic breast cancer in my spine and sacrum, recently it was also found in my femur. I recently had bone scan, nothing new showed up but doctor referred to hot spot in femur so wanted an mri whi I had around two weeks ago. I had...
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...
