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Not sure why Im on this forum
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The good, the bad and the ugly of my cold cap journey
Dear everyone, I am two and a half months past my last cycle of chemotherapy so I though I will share my experience with the cold calp. I had 4 cycles of TC (20/11/18 to 23/01/19). I chose to do a neoadjuvant treatment and start with chemotherapy to allow genetic testing to happen and give me some time to think about the…
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Feeling Stressed
Hi everyone, I haven’t posted for awhile have been going through treatment, not sure if I have posted this in the right category. Diagnosed with TNBC in October 2018. Have finished my 4 treatments of A/C every fortnight, body hasn’t cooed with it very well, been in hospital twice with neutropenia and rhino virus. Had a…
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Reflux and shampoo for Cold Cap Chemo
I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer with lumpectomy in October but I'm having four treatments of cold cap chemo AC and was wondering whether the Nioxin shampoo was a good one to use while going through this? Also what's the best for Reflux? This is my first post, so thanks for reading. Cheers.
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Invasive Metaplastic Carcinoma
I was diagnosed with an Invasive Metaplastic TNBC in Dec 2018, and had wide local excision & SNB performed January, with nodes clear and clear margins (though only just, on one side). Currently just had my 2nd chemo round (3-weekly TC x4), with 5 weeks radiotherapy to follow. Chemo has been relatively kind to me thus far,…
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Invasive Metaplastic carcinoma dx 1st April SapphireGem
SapphireGem Member Posts: 1 New Member9:49AMHi. Just popped in to introduce myself. I was diagnosed with Metaplastic carcinoma on April 1st..no joke! My 65th Birthday was April 2nd. Great! NOT!!! Im not familiar with medical term abbreviations I see used in posts, so I’ll just use old fashion ‘plain speak’. The tumour 3cm…
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Treatment after Mastectomy
Hello all, I am new to this forum as I was only diagnosed with invasive lobular cancer grade 2 (multifocal with 4 tumours) on my right breast in late March and undergone total skin sparing mastectomy last week with reconstruction done straight away. I went back to see my breast surgeon 2 days ago and was told my 3 sentinel…
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Hoping the surgeon is right
Hi all, it's been 6 weeks since my formal diagnosis of invasive lobular stage 2. I had a sectional Mastectomy 3 weeks ago and am recovering well, back at work full time, must keep busy. I am off to the oncologist Monday, my surgeon, whom is excellent, has suggested that I will most likely need radiation therapy followed by…
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IVF hormone positive
Hi guys. 2 days post mastectomy and axillary clearance and I’m doing very well! Discharged this morning. If you had oestrogen/progesterone +ve cancer and you underwent IVF to freeze eggs/embryos before chemo id like to know: did you take a receptor blocker ie tamoxifen/letrozole/zoladex with the stimulants to prevent a…
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Expander pain!
Evening lovely people x So Tuesday week ago I had a right mastectomy with auxiliary clearance and expanders put in.... My question is... who else has experienced expanders? And were you in pain? I am struggling to even stand up straight most of the time... wondering if this is relatively normal? Thanks guys xx
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Stage 0 (DCIS) with widespread microcalcifications
Hi, am very new and slowly (or quickly?) getting my head around my diagnosis and the terminology. It's like learning a new language which is probably the most pleasant thing I can say about this experience so far. I have widespread clusters of microcalfications across one breast. Three different biopsies have established…
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Impact on kids
Hi everyone, I'm currently in week 5 of radiotherapy. My 8 year old daughter is struggling with my diagnosis and is showing signs of anxiety, lashing out a lot. She admitted she is worried about me and I asked her to tell me what she understands about what I'm going through and I think us talking about that helped. Me and…
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TNBC & question re chemo
Hi, I was recently diagnosed with tnbc on 7th march. I’ve since had a lumpectomy & a few lymph nodes removed for biopsy. My tnbc was 12 mm, the lymph nodes clear but I think the margin behind the tumour was only .6 of a mm. At my post surgery appointment, it was suggested that I may not need chemo & the doctor thought that…
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Feeling very stressed and worried
Hello everyone, I have just been diagnosed with DCIS in three areas of one breast. I feel sick to the stomach and extremely worried. Have an appointment with surgeon on 8/4 to discuss mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Don't really know much at all other than what I have been reading. Trying extremely hard not to think…
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Surgery
I was diagnosed with IDC in March and I am scheduled for a wide excision next week. I’m absolutely terrified about the surgery and anaesthetic. Not sure how to deal with this overwhelming anxiety.