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Are the injections painful? 1-2 minutes for each buttock sounds horrendous. My oncologist is discussing whether to change my regime to Fulvestrant and Abemaciclib instead of Letrozole and Palbociclib, which I have been on for a year.
Morning all, newly diagnosed. firstly with a lump in left breast, biopsy done 10days wait to be told yes beast cancer treatment planned. chemo radio then surgery. But pet scan was needed results in 7days later consultant seen. Unfortunately has spread...
hi everyone I just been told that I have secondarys in my mastectomy site possible lung, I start epirubicin chemo just over a week ago and I've started with a headache anyone else had this? Jules xx
Hi I was diagnosed back in May with lung mets. I have never been diagnosed with primary breast cancer, so it was a shock. At the mammogram they identified a significant tumour in my right breast (which I had found as a lump and gone to the gp with...
Good Evening to everyone. I hope you are all feeling as well as you can. I was looking for anybody’s experiences on this. I was diagnosed with early BC in August last year and underwent wide local excision, removal of one lymph node, chemo, radiotherapy...
Hi all i have been taking letrozole and palbociclib for just over 2 years now and am still tolerating this fairly well. I was just wondering what sort of long term success others are having on this combo. Anyone out there on 3+ years and counting...
Hello everyone. I’ve just been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in my liver and lung. I’m in complete shock as it was only picked up on a scan for appendicitis and I have no pain or symptoms. I was treated for primary bc in 2019 and after a second...
I have just finished my first cycle of this with letrozole. Unfortunately my neutrophils have dropped to 0.69 so I have to delay treatment for a week. Is this a common response? I also kept falling on paclitaxel and stopped after nine cycles as it wasn...
Hi I started my first lot of chemo therapy in may 2021. However just had my second scan and been told it’s grown by 1mm in my auxiliary nodes. My specialist is now changing my plan has this happened to others? my cancer is HER2 receptive and now they...
I have incurable triple negative breast cancer with mets in shoulder girdle affecting the chest wall soft tissue and muscles. Bone mets in ribs, sternum, clavicle, sternum and now active on the opposite side to the original cancer for which I had a mastectomy...
