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Anyone else had a PICC line?
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Liver tumours
Hi..just found out breast cancer has spread..took lymph nodes out too, and was ready for chemo, as a " curative plan"..scans just found it has spread yo liver!! Now biopsy to see if its related to BC, or separate. PETRIFIED!!! Has anyone experienced anything similar?.. TIA..:-((
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Hi I have just been diagnosed
What a shock on the 7th Feb to find out the news I had my surgery on the 14th Feb, soooo lucky to be done so quick, not a lot of time to dwell on things. I have been told I have a grade 2 IDC and only 1 lymph was involved. I have seen the radiologist oncologist yesterday and lucky I had joined this group thanks to the BC…
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Seeking feedback on St Vincent’s oncology Lismore v’s Lismore Base Hospital
Hi all i am starting 6 cycles of Docetaxel/Cyclophosphamide (TC) treatment next week but still haven’t decided between St Vincent’s Hospital in Lismore or Lismore base hospital. I have private cover but St Vincent’s doesn’t have an emergency department and that makes me hesitant. Has anyone had experience with either of…
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Take 1 or Take 2 breasts
Newly diagnosed with DCIS. Surgery scheduled for the right breast. Conflicted over whether to take the left as well. Will the difference in look and feel be a substantial mental health element? Will the risk of getting it in the left be a significant health concern that will dog at me? The ongoing checking for the left…
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37 year old - just diagnosed
Hi ladies, I have been diagnosed with early stage, grade 2, DCIS in early January (ER+, PR+ and HER2 negative). Since then I had lumpectomy with clear margins and sentinel node biopsy. Sentinel node biopsy found a tiny speck of cancer cell (less that 0.5 mm) and oncologist is pretty sure it did not spread anywhere else and…
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Diagnosed today fluke pickup
Hi all, Just reaching out to get recommendations on best place to go for treatment. Diagnosed today after getting fine needle biopsy on Monday. Stage 3 5mm. Core biopsy and fine needle lymp nodes today checked. I had a CT scan under contrast which came back clear, pffeeeew. Getting results Monday from core biopsy. Where is…
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Recently diagnosed - Finally reaching out.
Hi friends I was diagnosed at the end of September after my first ever mammogram. I had turned 50 in August & thought I had better have it done. What a shock it was. My tumour was 6cm & I had cancer in 10 lymph nodes. My surgeon said I would have had it for 2 years. What the! Two weeks after diagnosis I had a left Breast…
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Decision - Breast conserving lumpectomy OR Mastectomy with Immediate DIEP. Any words of wisdom?
Hello, I have just finished chemo which has made 2 tumours undetectable on follow up mammogram and ultrasound - YEAH and the third has reduced by a third. Cancer is only in right breast. I am trying to decide between a lumpectomy reduction ( I'd go from DD to small C)with the left made to match or mastectomy with immediate…