Support needed from health professionals during treatment and beyond

Ditto to all this. Last week when I was seeing the Radiation Oncology registrar (a cheaper version, no doubt, of my proper radiation oncologist), in the course of conversation, I mentioned that when I'd been going in for my surgery, the BC nurse had said, "We like to separate out our breast patients among the gynae patients. We don't like our ladies sharing their stories." I said I'd found this astonishing, given the potential for women with BC to support each other. He said something like, "Oh, there have been problems with some people talking to others and imagining that what someone else has got is what they have." !!! I told him that the BCNA online forum had been my lifesaver and has provided far better support and information than most people in the hospital system. 

A neighbour who went through this 2.5 years ahead of me was the one who told me about BCNA, not the hospital.