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Hi, I had breast cancer back in2019, (T2N0 ductal Carcinoma) everything seemed to be fine after, but in the last year I started feeling tired and run down, passed it off as age and being a single mum to a 5yr old. Yesterday I got the worst call, the...
I want to say I have always taken a very positive approach to my cancer even though I know it's incurable. I have been on weekly Epirubicin for 5 weeks. After the first 4 treatments I got home already feel tired but found it almost impossible to sleep...
Hi I have been getting pelvic and lower back pain every day. Just wondering if anyone can recommend something non-medicinal that can help? Like heat pads or anything like that? Thanks, Alex
My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2023 and we recently discovered last week that it has spread to her pelvic bone and there is currently an unidentified mass showing on her skull requiring further investigation. She lives in Spain so has...
Does anyone suffer with chronic diarrhoea with the 3 weekly phesgo injections. Sorry tmi but interested to know. I’m really bad thank you xx
I’m 6 months into a secondary breast cancer, spread to liver, diagnosis.4 months into treatment- ribociclib, zoladex & letrozole. I don’t know how I should feel, I don’t talk. I’ve got loads of people I can talk to and a partner also but I can’t talk...
I have been told I have mets from breast cancer 10 years ago in my bone marrow. Not sure if anywhere else yet until CT on Tuesday. It took a while to get to the answer as to start with it was thought to be a blood cancer. But now I am more worried about...
So today (as I have said in replying to a post) I was told about my chemo plan, I am going to have 6 session one every three weeks along with two ther drugs whites names escape me. I saor with my husband we cried I am so angry I don’t want to get sick...
Hi, not sure what to write really as never thought I would be faced with having to deal with a cancer diagnosis….but a week ago I was told a CT showed bone mets, which was just a couple of weeks after I’d had surgery for breast cancer. I feel like the...
Hello everyone...it was 10 years almost to the day from my initial breast cancer dx, that the haematologist, who is dealing with my new anaemia, rang me to say that the bone marrow involvement is not a primary blood cancer. This was such a shock. I had...
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