Bump in the road with skin cancer post BC treatment
Hi everyone,
I was diagnosed BC 30th April, surgery 13th May, chemo 4th June and Radium through October. I finished radium on 28th October and have just started tamoxifen.
I was just starting to feel good and I was recovering really well. On Thursday 26th November I went to my dermatologist and have now been diagnosed with a Basil cell carcinoma (bcc) where my ear lobe joins my face. Bcc isn't malignant and it is unrelated to BC but they can be disfiguring
I felt shattered and defeated. Surely this isn't possible after the big fight i have just completed but it is. I know it is not the end of the world but fxxk cancer.
After Thursday's news I picked myself up and pushed on but today I am a little flat again. I am resilient and i will bounce back. My husband said I was feeling sorry for myself but I said I feel cancer anxiety. He has been amazing to me while treatment for BC was happening anc he did acknowledge on Thursday it seems all and bit too much for me to take.
I am waiting on pathology to see if the BCC is a simple or more complicated one.
I need surgery and my dermatologist is set to do that in January as they are booked up with melanoma and scc surgeries.
Bcc starts deep in skin so what is seen on the surface of the skin is small. The scary part is what's underneath. The surgeon flagged a surgical procedure called Mohs. Basically pathology is done during surgery to determine if all the cancer is gone with miminal skin removed due to it being on my face. Once tested they can close up or do more surgery.
I needed to vent. I am nervous about this and how much scarring I will have given its my face. I have previously had 3 melanoma and about 26 other moles removed which were abnormal but none on my face. I never worried about the scars on my body but after BC this all seems too much. It's all a bit surreal.
I was diagnosed BC 30th April, surgery 13th May, chemo 4th June and Radium through October. I finished radium on 28th October and have just started tamoxifen.
I was just starting to feel good and I was recovering really well. On Thursday 26th November I went to my dermatologist and have now been diagnosed with a Basil cell carcinoma (bcc) where my ear lobe joins my face. Bcc isn't malignant and it is unrelated to BC but they can be disfiguring
I felt shattered and defeated. Surely this isn't possible after the big fight i have just completed but it is. I know it is not the end of the world but fxxk cancer.
After Thursday's news I picked myself up and pushed on but today I am a little flat again. I am resilient and i will bounce back. My husband said I was feeling sorry for myself but I said I feel cancer anxiety. He has been amazing to me while treatment for BC was happening anc he did acknowledge on Thursday it seems all and bit too much for me to take.
I am waiting on pathology to see if the BCC is a simple or more complicated one.
I need surgery and my dermatologist is set to do that in January as they are booked up with melanoma and scc surgeries.
Bcc starts deep in skin so what is seen on the surface of the skin is small. The scary part is what's underneath. The surgeon flagged a surgical procedure called Mohs. Basically pathology is done during surgery to determine if all the cancer is gone with miminal skin removed due to it being on my face. Once tested they can close up or do more surgery.
I needed to vent. I am nervous about this and how much scarring I will have given its my face. I have previously had 3 melanoma and about 26 other moles removed which were abnormal but none on my face. I never worried about the scars on my body but after BC this all seems too much. It's all a bit surreal.
