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Chemo treatment decision
I was diagnosed with IDC in my left breast in April 2025. I have had surgery and am now navigating treatment options. I had my tumour tested with the Oncotype DX test and it came back in the middle r...
LauraB27
8 days ago
chemotherapy
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Radiation oncologist recommendations, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
I am about to undergo a wide excision for DCIS and I will later be referred to a radiation oncologist. Wondering if anyone is happy to share their experience with particular radiation oncologists on...
ThinLizzy
2 months ago
dcis
radiation
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Cardio-Oncology and Chest Irradiation
I highly recommend this recording- Cardio-Oncology for Hodgkin Lymphoma Survivors https://youtu.be/lyf6ZtDgkVM?si=84qAfUtTpM5I6-Vz Although the presentation focuses on cardiovascular disease r...
Dh5Wy83
2 months ago
chemotherapy-side-effects
radiotherapy
survivorship
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1Comment
TC chemo 4 vs 6 cycles
Hello I’d like to hear from anyone who has had more than 4 cycles of adjuvant TC. I’m coming up to cycle 4 next week and I still don’t know whether that will be it or whether I will have to do more,...
HannahM
2 months ago
chemotherapy
Fatigue
312Views
0likes
8Comments
Very confused
It is interesting reading everyone's journey's and trying to understand what's ahead. I tried going prepared to appointments with questions I found online but I'm always feeling pushed out the door a...
Higgsy
3 months ago
chemotherapy
work
194Views
0likes
3Comments
To port or not to port...
Hi, I have just found out that my WLE to remove 2 tumours wasn’t as successful as hoped and they didn’t get the healthy margin hoped for on one of them the, also the sentinel node biopsy came back as...
Jovdp
3 months ago
chemotherapy
port
386Views
0likes
22Comments
Radiotherapy after skin-sparing mastectomy & diep-flap-reconstruction?
Has anyone had radiotherapy done after their skin-sparing mastectomy & diep-flap reconstruction? Did it cause any issues with the breast flap? like hardening or shrinking? I had no lymph node invol...
mk24
4 months ago
diep
mastectomy
radiotherapy
Reconstruction
86Views
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1Comment
Cold Capping and hair loss experience with TC chemo
I went for my first TC chemo session with cold capping on a Paxman. I've got wavy coarse hair, that's not particularly thick. Conditioner and water was applied with a focus on the top of the head. I w...
lilys
5 months ago
chemotherapy
cold-cap
cold-caps
hair-loss
336Views
0likes
7Comments
Negative impact of radiation on Flap (autologous) reconstruction??
Hi all, will have mastectomy in a couple of months time, am considering to have an immediate breast reconstruction (IBC) using my own tissues/ flap (autologous). Unfortunately, I will have a series of...
aimsagi
6 months ago
breast-cancer-reconstruction-group
breast-reconstruction
radiation
radiotherapy
Reconstruction
159Views
0likes
5Comments
Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome
Hi everyone!!!! I was diagnosed with BC last year. I had DCIS and IDC......I had conserving surgery partial mastectomy with a flap reconstruction done......I had my yearly follow up in June this year ...
Angel61
6 months ago
radiotherapy
side-effects
797Views
0likes
17Comments
Surgical options when you need radiation post surgery ???
Hi All I am seeking advice/information about what options you were given for surgery when you needed to have radiation post surgery. A bit about me, I am 52 single mum to adult sons (one still a...
SandiDee
8 months ago
radiation
surgery
131Views
0likes
2Comments
Neoadjuvant PLUS adjuvant chemotherapy?
Hi everyone, As my wife's neoadjuvant chemotherapy draws to a close we've been looking more forward to surgery / radiation, however her breast care coordinator dropped a new bit of information last...
byo_boy
8 months ago
chemotherapy
neo-adjuvant-chemotherapy
post-surgery
95Views
0likes
2Comments
Update: I got heavy period 1 week after 1st Zoladex injection. Any similar experience?
Hello everyone. I wish you have a happy Sunday. I am 33 y.o. and diagnosed with localised advanced HER2-positive breast cancer last month. I got zoladex injection on Thursday (12/9). As expecte...
senjakala
10 months ago
chemotherapy-side-effects
neo-adjuvant-chemotherapy
zoladex
33Views
0likes
0Comments
Radiation
I finished Radiation about a month ago but I am still tired and I had real problems with losing skin and burns which has improved now but it is still very itchy? Anyone else have similar experience a...
slonimski
10 months ago
radiotherapy
164Views
0likes
2Comments
Radiotherapy burns
Hi everyone. I’m new here & wondering if someone has gone through something similar. I was diagnosed with grade 1 breast cancer & had a lumpectomy in June 2024. I finished 15 sessions of radiotherapy ...
frankie
10 months ago
radiotherapy
257Views
0likes
13Comments
fatigue and early aging
Hi I had brest cancer Nov 22 with lumpectomy, chemo and radiation. Iam now 55 years old but i feel my body has aged about 15 years. Chemo hit me with fatigue and i still have some bad days now. Is thi...
KGEB
11 months ago
breast-surgery
chemotherapy
Fatigue
radiation
88Views
0likes
3Comments
Must-haves for chemo
Hi all. I am about to start chemotherapy next week, fortnightly for 8 weeks and then weekly for 12. There is SOOOOOOOOOO much out there about what it will be like, what the side effects will be, what ...
ShazLou
11 months ago
chemotherapy
tips
325Views
1like
17Comments
Newbie - not the 2024 I was hoping for!
I was diagnosed just before Christmas 2023 with invasive lobular cancer - a journey that just keeps unfolding. Initial diagnosis scans showed the ILC was 3.3 cm, then MRI 6 cm and the pathology resul...
Paris_24
11 months ago
chemotherapy
hormone-therapy
mastectomy
new-diagnosis
radiation
808Views
0likes
22Comments
1/2 through radiation, and I'm Knackered,
so here I am on week 3 of 6 of this radiation treatment, and I'm so over it! After my last post on tips and tricks on how to get through and all the updates about my horrible radiation team, like tha...
Maree72
2 years ago
Fatigue
radiotherapy
116Views
1like
2Comments
Chemo caps
Hi All, I'm new here and was carer for my cousin who was diagnosed with aggressive, metastatic BC in July 2021. She underwent many rounds of different chemos and lost her hair three times throughou...
LeighLeigh
2 years ago
chemotherapy
102Views
0likes
11Comments

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