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Newly diagnosed
Hi there, I'm 39 years old & I've recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. I had breast surgery last week. I had an 8mm lump removed along with the sentinel node. The pathology reports showed that the cancer was triple negative. My first Oncologist appointment is on 22 April. I have been told by my breast surgeon that I…
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new
Hi, I am a 38 yr old single mum and have just been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Two 3.5 mm grade 3 tumors in left breast (one might be metaplastic but pathology is not conclusive on that) and at least 2 lymph nodes are highly malignant. Am feeling somewhat devastated :( Drs are recommending neoadjuvant…
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Trials
Hello there lovely Triple Negative Sisters. Has anyone here been involved in clinical trials during their treatment ? There seems to be a lot of press about PARP inhibitors and I wonder what your knowledge of them are. I live on the Gold Coast, how many others live in SE Queensland? Who would you recommend to see about new…
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Just thinking
Hi I'm new to this site and even though I'm 18 months post cancer, TNBC grade3 stage2 small lump <1cm 1/2 node+ 6 × 3 weekly chemo FCE100 31 rads over 6 weeks, came out the other side feeling great relief and life is again good, with the exception of the occaisional thought of this disease returning. I know the stats look…
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10,000+ members!
I would like to post about my story, how BCNA helped me, and how I try to give back some of the wonderful support I received. Despite regular mammograms and ultrasounds, I found my lump in the shower last year. It was a large fast-growing mass, and a core biopsy showed high grade malignancy, suspicious for lymph invasion.…
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Proper Introduction
It occurred to me I hadn't done a proper introduction on here yet so here goes. I'm the mother of soon to be two year old Amelia and the wife of my very own Magic Mike ( not a stripper of course but magical for all the very right reasons). We started on this detour late August after I had some lumps we discovered…
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Newbie
Got my TNBC result yesterday and joined this group today. Had a partial L breast masectomy and sentinel node biopsy (2 nodes removed) on 22/8 as had 9mm tumour (Grade 3)..Op results show clear margins and nodes. Still on leave from work but will be returning shortly. Meeting with oncologist shortly to discuss chemo so…
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TNBC newly diagnosed
I am a 66 widowed mother of two daughters and grandmother of 6, 3 beautiful girls and 3 very handsome boys who lives on the NSW South Coast. My story is probably very similar to everyone on this site. Last month I found a lump in my breast, not the normal pea shape people tell you about but what felt like muscle to me.…