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Hi all, I was diagnosed just before Christmas with invasive ductal BC. Ater many tests and scans if was found to have quickly spread to my lungs. My treatment options are now much more limited. I have been offered a place on a trial that I have been...
Hi! I am really worried waiting for my Pet scan results. I wonder what symptoms other people had with secondary bone cancer?? I had my diagnosis 4.5year ago at the age of 34. Now I have pain in my hip on and off pain .Some days I am fine some I can...
Hi everyone Iv read three or four posts and looked at the headings of some of the posts. I think I have it easy!! I had early diagnosis breast cancer 13 years ago and gad my left breast removed with implant fitted. Then a month of radiotherapy and...
Hi, I'm new to the group although I've lived with stage 4 breast cancer for 10+ years now. I accessed Pertuzamub and Herceptin alongside the Cleopatra phase three trial in 2013 and I have been on it ever since. I'm hoping to make contact with other...
Hi There, I haven’t been on here for some time now, i have a question. My wife has secondary breast cancer in her shoulder with mets to her lung, liver and lymph nodes particularly collar bone. She is on her second line of treatment unfortunately the...
Hello to everyone I have ER positive breast cancer which I have spine mets. I had surgery in upper thoracic spine back in September as a vertebrae was unstable and It needed to be pinned. I am now on robociclib fulvestrant and denosumab injection. I...
My history with cancer starts in 2010 when I had Tnbc, successfully treated for 12 years. In 2022 I had a new primary Tnbc and despite having been successfully treated, it recurred 18 months later with mets in liver, bones and lungs. I am currently on...
Hi, I had my 1st post diagnosis CT scan today. I am trying to stay positive, but I actually think I'll have driven myself crazy by the time I get the results! Totally irrational, all signs look like treatment is working, but I keep convincing myself I...
Hello everyone How you all doing this morning ? I wondered if any of you have lobular breast cancer ? I am reading about how it reacts and responds differently to ductal . I ve also been looking at the ROLO trial which is specifically looking into...
Hi I've been on pertuzamab and herceptin for five and a half years now since my third recurrence of secondary breast cancer. It's keeping me alive and I'm very stable but as far as I know this drug was very new when I went on it and no one I know has...
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