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Lobular breast cancer just diagnosed
Hello everyone, I'm new to this , I've only found out about my diagnosis one week ago and been going through a lot of testing over the week. I'm waiting on results of MRI on breasts, I had yesterday but wont find out anything till Monday afternoon. Also on Monday early morning I will have a pelvis CT scan to look at my…
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Difficult decisions
Hi, I was diagnosed with lobular breast cancer on 24th January. Stage 1 - clear LN. Er and Pr positive, HER2 negative. I've had 2 lumpectomies now and still no clear margins. The second op found another 10mm focus of tumour which was not seen on U/S, Mammo or MRI. So my choice now is whether to try a 3rd lumpectomy for…
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Making the ILC group a PRIVATE GROUP (instead of Public to the world!)
Hi guys At this point in time, the ILC and Young Women's groups are totally PUBLIC ..... anyone in the world can see the posts. I've put a request in for the ILC group to be private ..... so that we may discuss issues and developments in total privacy .... I have posted this in the ILC Group as well ..... General 'info'…
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recovering from double mastectomy with Bella's help!
So I had my double mastectomy recently with expanders put in at the same time (photos to follow in 'Choosing breast reconstruction' when I am a bit further along) for reconstruction and when they examined the breast tissue afterwards they found more DCIS, 10cm in total and I was small breasted! and in the other breast…
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Another newbie here - going through the process! and travel plans??
I’m sure life likes to create a few bumps to see how you cope! This one can be my last!! So 48 and had a routine mammogram and ultrasound on 9/3/18 - only booked day prior after having referral a few weeks, more concerned with my B12 deficiency. Had biopsies same afternoon and long wait for results until late following…
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Scared and confused
Hi my name is Helen. I was recently diagnosed with a Grade 2 lobular cancer on my left breast. Sentinel node biopsy confirmed 1 node was involved and tumour size was 12.7cms at time of surgery. So disappointed because neither scan, or ultrasound picked up the size. Just had double mastectomy and auxiliary clearance came…