Swelling - how much and how long?
Hi. I was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer in July 2018 when I was 40. I have completed 6 months of chemotherapy and 5 weeks of radiotherapy and 2 weeks ago today, I had a bilateral mastectomy ...
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Welcome, @Chev, I'm afraid I can't offer too much advice on that front. I'm sure one of our other members who's had that, or similar will be along to offer support & advice. @kmakm, @melclarity , I don't remember specifically which you had, but you may have so e knowledge
Another suggestion is to request to join the "choosing breast reconstruction" private group. Once you submit the request, it's a matter of waiting until one of the group admin is online to approve your request
Great news that there was no viable tumour left. That's what everyone who has neoadjuvant chemo hopes for. I'm going to have to research radiotherapy before surgery, too. I've seen a couple of references to that recently. I had surgery between chemo and radiation a few years ago, when even that didn't seem very common
Take care
Another suggestion is to request to join the "choosing breast reconstruction" private group. Once you submit the request, it's a matter of waiting until one of the group admin is online to approve your request
Great news that there was no viable tumour left. That's what everyone who has neoadjuvant chemo hopes for. I'm going to have to research radiotherapy before surgery, too. I've seen a couple of references to that recently. I had surgery between chemo and radiation a few years ago, when even that didn't seem very common
Take care