Hi everyone, Has anyone else been on Paclitaxol and ended up with issues with their hands and feet? My hands are sort of okay now compared to 2 weeks ago, my doc ended up giving me steroid cream due to the redness, which cleared my hands up nicely...
Hello, I have had my first cycle of two weekly infusions and am not coping too well on it - has anyone else had any experience of this - I really want it to work, so don't want to stop but have already had to delay the second cycle because of low white...
So today I got the results after my recent surgery. The mass they thought may have been another tumour wasn't, yipeee. They removed 15 lymph nodes and 4 had tumours so a whole body CT scan is being booked, results of this determine the next steps. ...
Hi - reaching out and desperate. My mum 77 was diagnosed for a second time with TNBC which has metastasised to her brain. Same cancer was treated 12 years ago but she developed sepsis during chemo and could not complete the treatment after the third round...
I had a lumpectomy and lymph node removed 3 weeks ago, yesterday I got my results. They have found another cancer in my breast and it is in my lymph nodes. I will undergo more surgery next week. The first cancer was triple negative, but they didn't say...
Hello, I am due to start Capecitabine chemo tablets soon and wondered what the main side effects are that people have experienced? Have people worked while taking these and what kind of reasonable plans have been put in place with employers? Thank...
I was diagnosed 17th December as TNBC stage 3 with numerous lymph nodes involved (more substantially than the actual tumour in the breast). I had to wait until 3rd Feb for treatment to even start which should be 4 cycles of Paclitaxel / carbuplatin and...
I was diagnosed with grade 3 triple negative breast cancer 8 weeks ago. I am only 29 years old but have the BRCA gene so the cancer was caught early through screening. I decided to have a double mastectomy to remove the 8mm tumour having been told I would...
Hi, I'm a newbie on here, I'm 57 and found a lump in my breast the middle of December and was diagnosed with TNBC on 14th Jan. Have bronchiectasis, microvascular angina and mild to moderate sleep apnea so received a phone call on Friday identifying that...
My wife has been diagnosed with early recurrence tnbc found in her collar bone lymph nodes so far no where else though two small nodes on her lungs but still to small to tell. As she also has rheumatoid arthritis treatment is limited as first round...
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