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I’ve had 4 rounds of pembro and then had to have my surgery bought forward as I wasnt responding to chemo but since my surgery which was 3 weeks after my last chemo I started to get joint pain. It started in my right hand same side as my surgery so thought...
Hi all. Hope everyone is well as can be! I hope you don't mind me joining the forum and asking a question, my wife is trying to stay away from looking things up! My wife (43) has recently been diagnosed with TNBC (grade 3) the tumor is small at about...
Hi not been on here for quite some time but I could really do with some help a week ago I started the Red Devil chemo side effects are really bad mainly leg weakness to the point where I can't walk without wanting to sit down I am seriously thinking about...
Hi everyone .... I am about to start EC chemotherapy and have been told the side effects can be quite bad . Has anyone else had it? Xx
Hi there Is there anyone else that's been diagnosed with an apocrine cancer? Apparently it's really rare and they are usually triple negative, especially in older women. It's very difficult to find out any information about it. Best wishes
My sister has just been diagnosed Triple negative with spread into lymph node. Shes waiting on PET scan results. Prepping for chemo to start but no set plan jn place yet until scan result is with oncology. Shes understandably feeling totally broken. We...
Hi everyone, so I was diagnosed with TNBC in October last year and have since had 6 months of chemo, paclitaxel, carboplatin and pembrolizumab then EC followed by a lumpectomy which had clear margins and no lymph node involvement but I have now managed...
I had triple neg 3 years ago, I had therapeutic mammoplasty chemo and radio. My cancer was picked up by an mri of my upper abdominal area, liver etc. When I was called to the breast unit , the cancer didn't show on the mammogram but ultrasound and biopsy...
I went to see the surgeon last week. After 16 rounds of chemotherapy my tumour has shrunk slightly. So I am going to be having a lumpectomy. What I hadn’t realised was I would be given a choice of the type of surgery. Honestly it was overwhelming listening...
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has been offered Capecitabine after having a single mastectomy (no cancer in lymph nodes and margins all clear and cancer gone ). I was due to have immunotherapy after surgery but I had a bad experience with it in March...
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