27 recently Diagnosed

If you have a search for the thread “27 year old lobular carcinoma” that’s my experience.... I’ve also written a big thread on fertility preservation.

We tend to still do chemo for us very young patients even being hormone positive, so something to start thinking about is fertility preservation if you thought you might want kids one day. As you’ll see in my posts on here, choosing to do egg harvest was the hardest decision for me. But I’m glad I’ve done it now, even though I don’t think I’ll ever use them, I have them as an option. 

My other advice is to ask for a plastic surgery opinion about reconstruction, you should ideally get an appointment pretty much immediately so you can consider your options in conjunction with surgery for the cancer. Delayed reconstruction is possible, which is what I chose and I don’t regret my decision, but if I had a tissue expander placed at diagnosis/mastectomy it may have made options a bit easier for me now. 

Radiation and implants make things tricky and have higher rates of failure so it’s important to have these discussions. 

Of course if you don’t care about going flat or if your mass is small enough for lumpectomy then you don’t need to consider this. 

I actually know of another girl who was diagnosed aged 27 last week through a friend of a friend. Perhaps I could see if she wants a virtual friend to go through treatment with, it really helped me I had two girlfriends under 30 all having treatment at the same time...