Secondary bone cancer
Hi all
I have recently been diagnosed with IBC only to discover the very next day it had also spread to my bones and after the bone density scan they have informed me it's very widespread. Well I jus...
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Hi Chrissy,
I'm coming up to 3yrs on the 28th October for my inflammatory breast cancer.
I do have a portacath and it is still in, they will not remove it for 5 yrs.
It was great through chemo and causes no problems now. I get it flush every 6 weeks with the community nurses as I am an hour away from my cancer hospital.
One of the reasons for mine is I have Scleroderma a auto-immune disorder that causes thickening of the skin so they had trouble accessing my veins and they will not remove it till I reach the 5 yr period.
Hope your treatment is going well and you aren't feeling to sick, hang in and think positive
cheryl