Hi Loubie
I was diagnosed with TNBC last year and had chemotherapy and radiotherapy after the lump was successfully removed with a lumpectomy.
It's very difficult to know how you'll react to chemotherapy. I had 3 cycles of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide (EC) followed by 12 cycles of paclitaxel. The EC was given every three weeks and I found that I felt tired for half of the time between cycles but then would be completely fine for the rest of the time. It did affect my taste buds and I did lose my hair but it started to grow back while I was on paclitaxel. The paclitaxel I found to be a lot easier than EC and I didn't get any side effects at all.
I'm hoping you'll find chemotherapy tolerable too.
Anne
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