triple negative
Hello to all you lovely ladies who have also been affected by a diagnosis of breast cancer. I am 57yo and had a routine mammogram recently which showed an area in one breast that looked abnormal. I c...
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Well, everyone’s case is different. I was diagnosed on 20/02/20, and my surgery was on 01/04/20. But they thought I had DCIS, low grade. Plus it was hormone positive, HER2 negative. I think with you they might want to start chemo first, I’m not too sure. Either way, I wouldn’t want to wait more than 2-3 weeks for something to happen. But then again, that’s just me. Im not a doctor. It’s only from comments I've been reading about it in places like this. Use your persistence to get things moving if you need to. I didn’t have private health cover either, so I used my super to pay my surgeon privately. The hospital agreed to treat me as a public patient, so I didn’t have to pay for that. I didn’t do chemo, but I did radiation and saw an oncologist for hormone treatment, all for free too. It was at Genesis Care and the Kinghorn (Sydney) which I think are private, but also accept patients publicly. I’m not sure how. I got appointments very quickly and treatment started quickly too, once I was ready. This was in 2020, but be persistent anyway 💟.