Hi guys and thank you so much for replying and your words of support.
You ready?
My wife was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer in 2018 and had a mastectomy and lymph nodes taken out as there was slight evidence in one node.
She received chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and due to the cancer being hormonal had her ovaries removed and was given hormone suppressant tablets to take.
My wife at the time was 40 years old. All was good till 2021 when three small spots appeared in her liver, which were cancer, type HER2 positive and our wonderful onchology team at the ST George Cancer Care Centre advised us that although they can no longer cure her cancer, they can now treat it.
She was put on chemotherapy and then on an infusion of immunotherapy every three weeks ( the name of the drugs escapes me), and the one monthly hormone suppressant injections.
In October last year a bit of cancer moved to her hip bone and radiotherapy was given with no change to her treatment.
Unfortunately on her follow up check up two more spots appeared on her spine and outside the rib cage of her chest. The liver is still stable.
This now means her treatment will change to ENHERTU, which is a new treatment, and we are hoping it works.
Looking on the internet to research all this is terrifying with stats and percentages.
When I spoke with our nurse she advised to take a step at a time and see how this treatment goes, but reminded me this thing will not go away.
I hope this helps you with our story thus far, and apologies for the long winded reply.
