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I have been on Palbocyclib and letrozole for 16 cycles for secondary breast cancer with bone lesions in pelvis and spine. Sadly my tumour marker has risen from 75 in Feb this year to 148 in June this year, so I have an appt with my oncologist at the...
Hello all I hope everyone is coping well in the circumstances. I am about to start my third chemo regime in 4 months and am struggling to hold onto hope and am wondering whether anybody has had their third line of treatment work for them when previous...
Has anyone on here ever been devised that wearing a tight bra, or bra with underwires can cause breast cancer? I keep seeing articles on social media that bras can cause breast cancer. I am very suspicious. But maybe people on here know something about...
Hi all just thought I'd let you know I work for IBM and tomorrow I'm delivering a Presentation to IBMers on Living with Terminal Cancer. It will be interesting to see how many attend.
Hi is anyone on this? What have been the side effects? I may move off chemotherapy onto hormone therapy soon. I’ve seen two Consultants in last two months 1 recommended cdk4/6 as suitable along with hormone treatment for my sort of cancer. Another has...
Hi I’ve had 10 months of paclitaxel. I was fine at first. Had diarrhoea since about month 8. And really wish my consultant had stopped it then as had stable scan then. ( Not been scanned since which annoying as that November). But since I stopped chemo...
Hi, I'm new to this forum. Had primary breast cancer treatment October 2015- June 2916 (single mastectomy, FECT and 20 or so rounds of radiotherapy) have had 5 symptom free years but last spring started having intestinal and digestive problems which were...
Hi I have been offered the above drugs to treat my inoperabler secondsry breast cancer, does anybody else hsve experience with these two drugs as I am a bit reluctant to go on them. any comments would be appreciated as at the moment I am feeling well...
Hello lovely people, I hope that you're all doing as well as possible! I'm looking for some advice - a little background, I am 27 years old, diagnosed with Her2+ & ER+ SBC in November last year (denovo) and I have my last round of chemo on Monday...
Diagnosed oestrogen/progesterone + HER -ve BC stage 2 June 2021. Ct showed lesions on hip spine sacrum. Mri inconclusive. Bone biopsy -ve for breast cancer cells. Lumpectomy, clear margins. Radiotherapy and started on Letrozole and leuprerolin injections...
