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Newly diagnosed - Triple Negative Treatment
Hi everyone, I was diagnosed with Grade 3 IDC - TNBC 3 weeks ago and had surgery to remove it last week. I have been worried about the TNBC part of my diagnosis. I would like to believe that I have ...
Hi @Mishcat
Forgive my jumping in but a number of us on this network worked through chemo. It’s certainly possible but unfortunately you have no real way of knowing till you start chemo. Reactions vary immensely - some are really made ill by chemo and can do very little except hoard their limited energy for what matters most to them. Others have very few side effects and live pretty normally (I was in that category). The majority are somewhere in between. I took a week off for surgery, then worked through chemo (public events), no radiation and was able to do so with little disruption. It’s a lottery. Best wishes.
Forgive my jumping in but a number of us on this network worked through chemo. It’s certainly possible but unfortunately you have no real way of knowing till you start chemo. Reactions vary immensely - some are really made ill by chemo and can do very little except hoard their limited energy for what matters most to them. Others have very few side effects and live pretty normally (I was in that category). The majority are somewhere in between. I took a week off for surgery, then worked through chemo (public events), no radiation and was able to do so with little disruption. It’s a lottery. Best wishes.