Hi Everyone
I found all your comments very interesting. I was diagnosed two weeks into my 41st year and I am three years living since my diagnosis. I had two individual breast cancers in my left breast and one had spread to my lymph nodes. I had chemo before mastectomy, followed by 5 weeks of radiation.
One of my maternal aunts had previously been treated for BC and she strongly recommended I use a Vitamin E cream called ProTec. I found it in a chemist and started using it on my left chest prior to radiation commenced. I had some red marks by the end of the 5 weeks. I am proud to share with you all that I am unable to see any area on my skin that was radiated - all skin colour and tone the same. My scar is "beautiful" a very fine silver line.
I had my right breast and ovaries removed last year and am still applying ProTec on a daily basis to my chest and most definately my left arm etc.
I am considering breast reconstruction and do not want a skin graft. The plastic surgeon does not believe I need to have the skin graft on my left side due to my skin being in such good condition.
Go ProTec cream. It is amazing, very easy to apply to skin, not thick like sorbolene cream and I think quite cheap. Ask your chemist to get it in if you can't find it.
All the best to all of you : )
Aneta
