Hi there, I'm 39 years old & I've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. I had breast surgery last week. I had an 8mm lump removed along with the sentinel node. The pathology reports showed that the cancer was triple negative. My first Oncologist appointment is on 22 April. I have been told by my breast surgeon that I…
Hi, I am a 38 yr old single mum and have just been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Two 3.5 mm grade 3 tumors in left breast (one might be metaplastic but pathology is not conclusive on that) and at least 2 lymph nodes are highly malignant. Am feeling somewhat devastated :( Drs are recommending neoadjuvant…
Hello there lovely Triple Negative Sisters. Has anyone here been involved in clinical trials during their treatment ? There seems to be a lot of press about PARP inhibitors and I wonder what your knowledge of them are. I live on the Gold Coast, how many others live in SE Queensland? Who would you recommend to see about new…
Hi I'm new to this site and even though I'm 18 months post cancer, TNBC grade3 stage2 small lump <1cm 1/2 node+ 6 × 3 weekly chemo FCE100 31 rads over 6 weeks, came out the other side feeling great relief and life is again good, with the exception of the occaisional thought of this disease returning. I know the stats look…
I would like to post about my story, how BCNA helped me, and how I try to give back some of the wonderful support I received. Despite regular mammograms and ultrasounds, I found my lump in the shower last year. It was a large fast-growing mass, and a core biopsy showed high grade malignancy, suspicious for lymph invasion.…
It occurred to me I hadn't done a proper introduction on here yet so here goes. I'm the mother of soon to be two year old Amelia and the wife of my very own Magic Mike ( not a stripper of course but magical for all the very right reasons). We started on this detour late August after I had some lumps we discovered…
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