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Hiya I’m Issy and have joined this group as I am awaiting a bone scan result and think I may have bone mets. I was diagnosed stage 2b BC in Jan 18 and have been getting new pain in lower back at sacrum , hoping I’m wrong but knew this was always going...
Hi. My mum knew she had secondary breast cancer but found out today that she now has bone cancer in the base of her skull. I'm joining for support please. Oncology will tell us more on Friday
Hello everyone, to give a background I was diagnosed in Feb 2018 with left breast IDC grade 2 and spread to lymph nodes. Had partial mastectomy, chemo, radiotherapy, bishophates and started Anatrozole. In February 2021 high grade DCIS was found in other...
Just had results from recent ct scan - and all stable ! Ca15 marker has gone down to 12 so really pleased! Continuing with phesgo and demenusab injections, such a relief. The time waiting for results is awful, kept trying to put it to back of my mind...
Hello everyone, My daughter has secondary bone metastases diagnosed a year ago, she is on the usual 4 medications (I think) to block all hormones .she is waiting for results of third scan always a very anxious time, stable so far though. She leadsa...
Hello everyone! Well it's been 9 years since I was last on this forum and obviously hoped that I would not be returning! But here I am! I had a bit of swelling and itching at my mastectomy site summer last year during Covid and didn't get it checked...
I am due to start abemaciclib with fluevescent injections next week for liver mets. I was just wondering if anyone has any long term experience of this drug? I have seen that some people have talked about palbociclib taken over many years, but not so...
Hi there, I seemed to have posted here there and everywhere on this site, new to community, breast cancer, but I think I’m in the right place now. my initial breast cancer was 2014 and I have now been diagnosed with secondary cancer in my muscle and...
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/caitlin-flanagan-secret-of-surviving-cancer/619844/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB snippets : "When I began to understand that attitude doesn’t have anything to do with survival, I felt myself...
