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Please get in touch for a chat. Im starting my treatment next week or the week after. Dreading the lengthy chemo and immunotherapy treatment. 6 months then surgery and more chemo
Hello! I'm 55 and was diagnosed in January this year with TNBC stage 3 in my right breast. I since had 16 sessions of chemo (a few different types), immunotherapy, and a mammoplasty a few weeks ago that I'm still waiting on the pathology results for....
Don't where things a going now my wife had a lumpectomy and lymph nodes removed two weeks ago and today we visited the surgeon Was stunned when we were informed she will have to undergo another operation in two weeks as the biopsy taken at the time...
Hi, fairly new here, had TNBC PALB2 positive and as I have already had a liver transplant 10 years ago I have been told I have minimal options. I am pragmatic in front of my consultant but having just had grade 3 lump removed with chemo to follow, it...
Today's thoughts/questions Hoping to cold cap as love my pale pink hair and incredibly vain But also have a severe pancreatic insufficiency which results in chronic diarrhoea (that's even without potential chemo diarrhoea). My question is if your...
Hi, Newly diagnosed triple negative stage 2. Trying to understand my histology report. Im a nurse myself but this is not my specialism. So complicated, It says GATA3 positive HER-2 Negative IDC So complicated, help ! Need understanding to try...
My daughter in law has had Triple a since December,21. Things now are getting serious as it’s now in her lungs and liver. No chemo or trials have worked. They have a 2 years old son which makes things even harder. Apart from me there’s no other family...
New to all this, I was diagnosed in June with TNBC and I have one more round of treatment left before surgery next month. It just feels like it's never ending extra treatments being added on. When I was diagnosed I was informed it would be 6 months then...
Bit of a rant: I was first diagnosed 29th August told ER negative 10mm cancer but nothing else I had a lumpectomy & SN removal on 18th October, found out on op day that my HER2 was negative. Had my post op on 27th found out my PR was also negative,...
I've just read my letter and seen this. I then did the worse thing and googled it. I found it says life expectancy is five years or less. Does this mean I only have five years to live as none of the doctors have explained this to me. I'm now so worried...
