Introduction

I am so sorry you've been diagnosed with breast cancer but welcome to this network.We all help each other here with information and support.You are on a fast learning curve and yes,it's abit like a foreign language at first. Sometimes you are advised to have chemo first and then surgery.The rationale behind this is that your oncologist can see if the chemo chosen for you is actually working and shrinking the bc.I hope your doctors talked it through with you and explained their reasons.I had a mastectomy 3 years ago and THEN I had chemo.I must say I wanted the cancer out as soon as possible.This was my second bout of bc in the same breast.I had a lumpectomy and radiation in 2003 but bc came back 7 years later. I had the same pathology as you each time.I am on Tamoxifen now and sort of tolerating it. Chemo was by far,the hardest of the  treatments.Ask any questions here and ask your oncologist questions because you need to feel confident in him/her and your treatment.It is a very scary time for you and you are probably still in abit of shock.Hopefully,you have good family support because there will be days when you have trouble getting out of bed.Your pic profile is lovely and your little one looks so young.This breaks my heart to see young mothers have to go through this crap journey.It's so unfair and there are many like you on this network. Sending hugs.

                                  Tonya xx