Is it ‘have’ or ‘had’ breast cancer?
Im newly diagnosed and waiting on the results of an MRI before my surgeon finalises my plan going forward. As it stands now, I’ll be having a lumpectomy, followed by radiotherapy and then hormone the...
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Hi, I wonder that myself. I have had surgery, and being early stage my oncologist said that I may not even have any cells left in me. However, because they can’t know for sure I have just started radiation therapy and will be on Tamoxifen for five years. So I find myself wondering too, do I say I have breast cancer or I had breast cancer. Being treated for breast cancer feels like too much of a mouthful for me 😁! I suppose until the oncologist says there is no detectable disease I still have it - it doesn’t feel right to say I do or don’t though. I think maybe it’s just that I don’t want to think about having it.
BTW, I am just down the road from you at Lake Macquarie 😉😊. We can compare notes!
Wow! That’s just a forty minute drive from my place! 😄This new world we’ve found ourselves is so small yet way too big at the same time.
Im still waiting for a surgery date and it can’t come soon enough. I was expecting to get a surgery date last week but my surgeon decided I needed an MRI as she found another suspicious area when she examined me. We’re hoping it’s just more DCIS than was imaged on the mammograms and US. It’s just adjacent to my other DCIS so fingers crossed that it just means the surgeon will have a clearer idea of the margins.
Would be great to compare notes once I have something worth sharing. Yeah, that doesn’t sound right but I’m sure you get my meaning. 😁
I’m happy to catch up if you ever want to, given we are so close. my surgeon also found another suspicious area - so I ended up with three biopsies in total. Two were benign, but the radioactive scan they did showed tracking towards one of the benign areas so she took it out as well just to be safe. I hope you get a date soon.
Are you going through the Gateshead clinic by any chance?Im closer to Maitland so that’s where I’ll be receiving treatment. Im hoping they won’t want a third biopsy and that we just go ahead and schedule the surgery. Im just at the point where I want to get this all started. I feel like I’m just treading water at the moment.
Will you be going through the Public or Private system?I totally understand the desire to just get started and get it out of you. I was already linked in with the private breast centre at Gateshead before the diagnosis so have just stayed with them. It does mean a bit out of pocket but I know them and feel comfortable there.