A place to talk about how your diagnosis has affected you after active treatment ends. Discuss long-term side effects, fears and joys, silver linings and other ways your diagnosis has impacted your life.
hi friends. I’m a three year cancer survivor trying to navigate life after my cancer and the death of my sister from ovarian cancer. Long story short I was driving my kids when I experienced left lip numbness, left thumb numbness then my entire left leg went numb. Like pins and needles. And it felt swollen but wasn’t.…
Hi, all. I have had 4 separate cancers over 26 years. My "journey" began in 1997 when breast cancer (Stage 1 ER -) was found on my 2nd annual mammogram at the age of 42. I went through a lumpectomy that left me with an infection that lasted for 2+ years. I then had radiation and my 1st chemo. Five years later, I was…
Kate!!!! Your story was amazing in the newsletter. Thank you for putting your story into words. 💗
We want to hear about how your experience of BC has changed you and how/in what ways is your life different now. Have you made lifestyle, relationship, work changes?
Hello friends. I was diagnosed in 2014 with early stage BC. I had a lumpectomy followed by 6 weeks radiation. I then received tamoxifen for a few years followed by letrozole, for a combined total of 8 years, completing therapy in 2021. I was wondering if I should continue to see my oncologist for annual visits even if I…
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Someone wrote recently that she wished she still had breast cancer because her life now is more difficult than it was when she was going through chemo. Her job is more demanding and now she lacks the support she had while in active treatment. I want NOTHING to do with my reconstructed breasts or anything breast related,…
Don't get me wrong, I know I do, I felt the lump and saw the breast and bone biopsy results but I feel fine, always have. I've been very lucky to have completed my first year and treatments with minimal SE's but I often feel guilty that so many others of varying stages struggle, it isn't what I expected when diagnosed…
Hi. I was dx'd with metastatic lobular carcinoma in 2018. I had gone to a dermatologist because of a sore on my thigh. Turns out it was positive for MBC. I saw an Oncologist , and was informed it was stage 4 terminal. So I was on Ibrance for 4 years, and was doing well. But then my cancer markers started to go up. But not…
So had a 6 month appt with RO which honestly I’m not sure why but in the back of my head I thought she would just say looks good, have a nice life 🤪. So at the end as we were discussing when I was seeing the BS and MO again (in December), she told me the “plan” was her to follow me for the next two years but since the BS…
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