I see on the website they are organising a 5 k colour dash in Phoenix park on the 27th July.. Anyone want to join me.. I will 4 weeks post chemo. I will have to walk it.....
sorry i seem to have lots of questions at the moment.
the closest cancer care centre to me seems to be the gary kelly centre in drogheda. I know there is one beside the mater but i have heard its dreadful for parking
is it worth the 30 mins drive t...
Hello, I only discovered this forum yesterday, I think I had my head in the sand. I had my last chemotherapy today and not sure how I feel. Relieved that it's over but aware I still have the side effects of this round to face. Expecting anticlimax...
OK so had my genes test results today ....I have the BRCA2 gene .A very strange feeling after all that has gone this and last year . I feel glad that I got the test as I was borderline whether they were going to give it to me ....My Mum had bilatera...
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I am starting Radiotherapy soon at St Luke's in Rathgar and am wondering if anyone is attending or has attended recently. I am wondering what the parking situation is there as I will have a 1.5 hours drive and I'm not sure how long ...
Have 5 out of my 6 chemo sessions done and back next week for the test. Monday I have a mammogram and ultrasound and then MRI on the thurs.
will they give me any idea on Monday after the mammogram and ultrasound.
Will ye keep me in ur prayers and p...
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I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer last jan. had a bone marrow biopsey as platelets& iron levels were very low - bone marrow showed up breast cancer cells! Further scans showed my lump& "spots "in liver! Getting over(so...
Sept last year I got a FNA biopsy and Nov I was told I had a benign growth on the Parotid salivary gland that needed to be removed asap because FNA is not 100% and the growths can turn into cancer. I am still waiting to get it removed with 2 cancella...
Hi, anyone out there who has been diagnosed with recurrent/metastasis ovarian cancer. Have finished the chemo part (taxol & carboplatin with avastin) and I am on Avastin only.
However, down in the dumps this week and concerned about mortality. W...
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I am wondering if anyone has had radiotherapy following a lumpectomy and if so how long it was after surgery before it started?? I am now already six weeks post surgery and am still waiting to go for mapping so that they can pla...
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I am organising a Dip in the Nip on 22nd June in Wicklow..... if any of you fine ladies would be interested. I have chosen Leah and Lily-Mae as the recipients of fundraising beautiful little girls only 5 and 6 and have gone through so muc...
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Well tomorrow the 13th is my one year mastectomy anniversary and after a whole year I've suddenly got lymphoedema!
My wrist and hand are all puffed up and sore. I was on to the physio dept and got advice re exercises and rest etc and will p...
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