Hi gang!
Tomorrow we go up to find out what the surgeon and his team found as a result of my mastectomy and auxiliary clearance on nov 15th.
Does this vary greatly from the original diagnosis??? Am so afraid that there are still some nasty surprise...
Yay!
I can now say that I am according to the surgeon : cancer free!!!!
Hurdle 2 and hurdle 3 await me and I have to meet oncology in 2 weeks time.
But it's a relief to finally hear that it's gone and everything else they give me is to make sure it ...
Hi there!!
Just wondering if this is "normal"???
I'm two weeks post mastectomy and things according to medics are going fine.
However, the numbness is wearing off, still have drain, but I keep getting pains in my arm and at the top of m...
Hi Ladies,
A minor thing really but just wanted to check whether any of you ladies had problems with your hand nails after chemo. I have developed awful looking red/purpley marks on all my nails. Sort of look like a burn. They are taking up 3/4 of ...
Hi guys
Reality has hit 18 days post surgery. Pain is subsiding and for everyone else the cancer is gone and life is returning to normal........
No way!!! I suppose now surgery is out of the way the next hurdle is looming bright and scary on the hor...
Hi, I am a 29 year old male, I had a sarcoma removed from my leg earlier this year, had radiotherapy. However I have had a recurrence in the abdomen, had ct scan and was told it hadn't spread and they are fairly confident its not stuck to any organs...
I've been on Tamoxifen since August. I am still getting regular periods but despite the oncologist telling me that my periods should diminish over time the opposite is happening. They are really heavy and I was totally wiped out this weekend becaus...
Don't know who is out there but hi anyway. Everyone seems to be able to remember specific dates but my brain is a blank. Let me think had my appendix out Octoberish and one week later found lump and of course it ended up being cancer. Invasive lobu...
Hope I can get some advice here
My dad just been given 4 weeks to live.. Was battling stage 4 rectum tumour the past 8 months. Took a turn for the worst about 6 weeks ago... After fighting well and having had some positive signs for results from che...
Hi girls,
I had my double mastectomy last Thursday week and had all the nodes out under my left arm. I was just wondering because my surgeon had always said that he would use the scar on my breast to remove the nodes through, but in the end he went...
Hi girls,
I'm another new member though have been reading this board for a few days - was delighted to come across it!
I was diagnosed on Sept 28th with two different tumours in my right breast - invasive lobular and invasive ductal - and there was a...
Hi gang!
Once again asking for experiences....I met the oncologist today. Shes very very nice and says it how it is - even if I didn't really like what I was hearing......
I have to have six rounds of a regime called TAC. Has anyone haf any experie...
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