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Hi all. Looking for advice. I’m at the slightly in limbo stage of my treatment. I was diagnosed in November and then on EC, Carboplatin and paclitaxel until May. Had a bilateral mastectomy two weeks ago with 2/2 nodes being positive. Starting radiotherapy...
I am now almost at the 3 year point since my breast cancer diagnosis. Somewhere along the line my husband picked up the information that 3 years post diagnosis is a positive sign. A BCN nurse said 2 years to us recently. My question is is this just...
Hi everyone, Today my partner was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer at 33 years old. We kind of knew this was coming just from the way the consultants were acting during the tests, they were initially quite positive, but as the tests went...
Hello everyone I was diagnosed with breast cancer in December and got the news it was grade 3 triple negative early January. I am to have surgery next week. Like a lot of people I googled tnbc and went into panic. Everything I read seems to be very...
Hello, I’ve been diagnosed with TNC stage 2 and not in the lymph nodes, I have a MRI scan on 28th and then will start the chemo regime, obviously am worried especially about the side effects. I am having SACT…Carboplatin..Paclitaxel and EC with Pembrolizumab...
So my partner had her first EC on Friday and was told to start the filgrastim injections 3 days after but was then told that it would be on Sunday now that’s day 3 but in my head is only 2 days after so am a little confused and I’m also confused as...
Diagnosed in December and got my first oncology appointment next Tuesday. I'm 58 years old. They said it's 3cm and grade 3. No confirmed stage as yet. I had a biopsy on my lymph nodes at the same time as my breast but they've said it's not in them. It...
Hi everyone im scared, I can’t eat, can’t sleep, my world has been turned upside down, they said it’s treatable and because my growth is 3.5cm I will have chemo first then surgery if it shrinks, they said on ultrasound it isn’t looking like it’s in...
Hi all Has anybody here suffered from cancer truama depression or PTS since going through all the treatment but didn't realise it. I had been diagnosed with TNBC in 2022 had all my treatment, surgery, had sepsis and had to have a blood transfusion...
Found a lump on the 4th Jan, and was in on the 9th Jan having a mammogram and ultrasound with biopsy’s, found out the following day I was pregnant, so mri for following week had to be cancelled. Fast forward to today and found out I have TNBC… I feel...
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