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Breast and thyroid cancer combination
Hi everyone I was diagnosed with HER2 positive breast cancer in October last year. I had 4 courses of chemotherapy to shrink the tumours in my breast and under my arm pit. This was followed by a lu...
Hi EarthWalkerLisha
Thanks for your response and kind advice. I had no signs or symptoms of thyroid disease prior to being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I suppose that's why it was such a shock. Finding the thyroid cancer was purely accidental. I was worried about a lump on my chest near the sternum and asked the doctor to investigate it. That lump turned out to be nothing to worry about but the ultrasound showed a strange looking lymph node in my neck and when biopsied it was shown to contain thyroid tissue. It was a metastes from the throid cancer confirmed by my endocrinologist.
It sounds like you are recovering well from your breast cancer. As well as anyone of us can from such a significant life change. I am sorry to hear about the oedema in your breast. I have lympoedema in my left arm which I have been massaging and wearing a compression sleeve (when I remember!). It is inconvenient but when I look at the big picture I am just happy to be alive
Thanks for your response and kind advice. I had no signs or symptoms of thyroid disease prior to being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I suppose that's why it was such a shock. Finding the thyroid cancer was purely accidental. I was worried about a lump on my chest near the sternum and asked the doctor to investigate it. That lump turned out to be nothing to worry about but the ultrasound showed a strange looking lymph node in my neck and when biopsied it was shown to contain thyroid tissue. It was a metastes from the throid cancer confirmed by my endocrinologist.
It sounds like you are recovering well from your breast cancer. As well as anyone of us can from such a significant life change. I am sorry to hear about the oedema in your breast. I have lympoedema in my left arm which I have been massaging and wearing a compression sleeve (when I remember!). It is inconvenient but when I look at the big picture I am just happy to be alive