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Hello....I have joined because like everyone else, I won't know if this helps me and/or helps me help others?! So I am giving the forum a try....which I suppose is my mindset for accepting initial treatment recommendations. 4 years after mastectomy I...
I was diagnosed in 2020 with a small but very aggressive breast cancer with high oncotype score. Had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy - lymph node was said to be clear yet 7 months later it had spread to 3 nodes. Had axillary clearance which landed me in...
I had diagnosis 24/12/25 of secondary breast cancer in the Right humerous and left hip, have had scan after scan lots of meetings and now only seeing the Oncologist next week 1st May told by breast surgeon that I'll be having Radiotherapy and discussion...
Just wondering if anyone has had an experience similar to mine...I've been on pembrozilamab every 6 weeks and nab paclitaxel 3 weekly then 1 week off for the last 2 years, my consultant informed me that funding for immunotherapy only lasted for 2 years...
Hi everyone I am really not sure what to say and I personally like def talking but feeling very low at the moment I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2024 and then after that I ended getting thyroid cancer first in left then a week after got told it...
I have just been discharged from hospital where I have spent the last 4 days. The discovered a fairly large Gallstone. I am now on antibiotics for it and will probably have it removed when the bacterial infection is gone. (That is what they think is the...
Hi, my mum has widespread bones mets for over 3 years. She had CT scan which shows inflammation in lungs and still awaiting results. She had skull mets and developed a droopy eyelid for over a week. She went A & E and they said go to oncologist to investigate...
Hello, My name is Nicola and im new to the group. I first got diagnosed with ER+ HER2 - breast cancer in 2015. I had a lumpectamy, removal of 3 lymph nodes from under my arm,chemotherapy, radiotherapy. Had ovaries removed in 2016. Started on tomoxifen...
Dear fellow secondary breast cancer forum members. I was approached last week by one of MacMillan’s other lovely volunteers to see if I would be interested in becoming one of the site’s community champions. I have completed the training and been suitably...
I am currently waiting on a ct scan to check for lung mets. I went to the doctor as I started to have intermittent dull pain in my right lung (cancer side) that comes and goes. No other symptoms. I am now absolutely terrified that the cancer has come...
