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Drained- Depressed & Struggling
Well it has been three months since I have been online so here goes. Twelve weekly sessions of chemo (Paclitaxel) plus Trastuzumab (hercepton) every three weeks just completed! Last tuesday was my last chemo (Paclitaxel) YAY! I was to start 4 weeks of radiation on 17th Sept. But was notified yesterday it will now start on…
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Broken Toe
Hi Everyone, been a while since I have been on here....been doing really well, I have only 3 Paclitaxil left to go...anyway the Question is last night I kicked something and i heard a crack and I figure I have broken my little toe and possibly the one next to it, should i go have it seen too, or will it be ok... I figure…
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Timeline on treatment
My treatment seems to be taking so long... I hear of people that were diagnosed well after me are almost finished radiotherapy.... I was diagnosed in August have had a 2nd lumpectomy to get the margins...still havent a date for radiotherapy ....will be seeing my surgeon again this week i guess for pathology on the tissue…
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Last 4 weeks of chemo then mastectomy-feeling low
I am not really newly diagnosed but still have quite a ways to go to finish treatment so thought I would post on this forum. I was diagnosed in June and had a lumpectomy and wide node clearance a week later. The surgery was OK but I developed serous fluid build up in the breast post op and had to have it drained many…
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Research study - Share your views about how cancer treatment and care can be improved
If you've been diagnosed with breast or any other cancer and want to have a say about how cancer care can be improved, you are invited to share your views about how cancer treatment can be improved via an online survey being conducted by All.Can. All.Can is an international initiative which has been set up to identify…
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Feels like a brand new diagnosis 😫
Hello, Although I have been aware of these groups I have been too afraid to post. Posting meant I truly had cancer. Everything happened so quickly it still feels like a dream. After finding a small, red, angry lump on my left breast, I plucked up the courage to visit my GP. He straight away organised a mammogram. On…
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New diagnosis and Mastectomy
Hi 3 weeks ago I went for a mammogram and bingo I have now had a mastectomy to my left breast. Stage 2 N1 locally advanced invasive lobular breast cancer. Recommendation is chemo and radiotherapy. Just wondering if anyone has similar or can tell me about the chemo please. Waiting for an appointment with the oncologist.
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Finding the unfunny funny
just wanted to vent these (what I found) funny exchanges I had recently. I had a choice about laughing or crying over them, so I just chose to laugh and run with that. So so I went to the chemo ward the other day to have my stupid monthly Zoladex injection. The nurse who did it was in her 20s, and was training another…
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Is that a light at the end of the tunnel??
To me a journey is getting from A to B at a leisurely manner....stopping off for a bit of sight seeing and long lunches.....what I have been through since 28th March has been a fast track nightmare heading for the chasm that has lost the bridge!! Oh I know that sounds melodramatic but I honestly don't know where last 4…