Awaiting results after surgery - Mjheke
Hi all, I am so pleased to be provided with information for this online support community! I was diagnosed with breast cancer 12 days ago and it has all been very fast moving and overwhelming since...
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Hi Michelle, all the best to you with your treatment plan and also returning back to work (which I'm sure can't be easy). I was diagnosed with BC a month ago and 'left' work immediately (I'm hoping to return next year)...As a teacher, I felt it would have been too difficult for me to manage a class of students (although I'm sure there are lots of brave souls who do!)
I initially felt a lump which was followed up with a core needle biopsy - this lump turned out to be nothing but a cyst, but whilst the radiologist was checking the 'films' she saw another area she wasn't sure about :o I ended up going back for a 2nd core needle biopsy - not a cyst this time, but IDC!
With my treatment plan, I was unable to have radiation as I've had it in the same area previously (for Hodgkin's Lymphoma), so we had to be a bit more radical, hence being booked in for a mastectomy..Although the other side was okay, I've chosen to have a prophylactic mastectomy on that side too - I want to reduce the chances of getting this again as much as possible! :)
I'll have my double mastectomy on 23 November, so the time is getting closer now. At this stage my surgeon doesn't think I'll need chemo, but I think it will depend on what everything looks like once it's out.
Wishing you & all the other brave gals out there a smooth & 'peaceful' journey with the decisions you have to make <3
Suzanne Xx
I initially felt a lump which was followed up with a core needle biopsy - this lump turned out to be nothing but a cyst, but whilst the radiologist was checking the 'films' she saw another area she wasn't sure about :o I ended up going back for a 2nd core needle biopsy - not a cyst this time, but IDC!
With my treatment plan, I was unable to have radiation as I've had it in the same area previously (for Hodgkin's Lymphoma), so we had to be a bit more radical, hence being booked in for a mastectomy..Although the other side was okay, I've chosen to have a prophylactic mastectomy on that side too - I want to reduce the chances of getting this again as much as possible! :)
I'll have my double mastectomy on 23 November, so the time is getting closer now. At this stage my surgeon doesn't think I'll need chemo, but I think it will depend on what everything looks like once it's out.
Wishing you & all the other brave gals out there a smooth & 'peaceful' journey with the decisions you have to make <3
Suzanne Xx