Just diagnosed with Invasive Mucinous Carcinoma
I was diagnosed yesterday with invasive mucinous carcinoma. I'm booked in for a lumpectomy and removal of sentinel lymph nodes on the 20th February and the regular CT scans and bone scan on 1st Feb. Surgeon has said that due to my age (45) oncologist may likely recommend chemo, radiation or hormone therapy depending on receptors found. I honestly feel like I just enrolled in a new unit at uni with all this new knowledge that I am researching and learning. I haven't found many forums that talk about this type of cancer, less common. Would love to hear from others with same diagnosis. So many thoughts to navigate. I toggle between doing ok and coping and then next minute I'm a mess. I'm sure this is normal. I have such dreaded thoughts about my future and ideas of planning a will and leaving all the passwords for my kids but then I collect myself and try to be positive and strong. I find myself just staring vacantly while my thoughts are racing and my family don't really know what to say, honestly neither do I sometimes and so I say nothing. Looking forward to connecting here and leaning on the support of amazing strong women and getting a well needed laugh occaissionally xx.