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Webinar Oct 21: Navigating the Financial Side of Breast Cancer
Read more about what to expect and register to participate here: Webinar: Navigating the Financial Side of Breast Cancer
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Join our Community Book Club!
Join our Breastcancer.org Community Book Club, a new opportunity to connect through stories, shared experiences, and thoughtful conversation. Bookmark this thread now to be sure to follow along as we update for our book selection announcements, scheduled discussions, and posts as we read along together and discuss in the…
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Your Voice Can Shape Clinical Trials | Participate for $100 gift card!
Researchers at Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber, and Harvard Medical School are exploring how AI chatbots can make clinical trial consent easier to understand. They’re inviting adult cancer patients across the U.S. to join a virtual focus group and share their ideas. Participants will receive a $100 gift card. Spots are…
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🍂 Getting Ready to Start Radiation in November 2026? Share Tips, Encouragement & How You're Doing🍂
Are you starting radiation therapy this November? Whether you’re preparing for your first session, settling into the routine, halfway through treatment, or counting down to your final appointment, this thread is for you. This is your place to connect, ask questions, share updates, celebrate milestones, and support others…
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🍁 Starting Chemo in November 2026? Learn How to Prepare, Meet Others, and Support Each Other!🍁
Starting chemotherapy this November? Whether you’re preparing for your first infusion, in the middle of treatment, or nearing the finish line, this thread is for you. This is your place to connect, ask questions, share updates, celebrate milestones, and support others who understand the ups and downs of chemotherapy.…
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🎇Having Surgery in November 2026? Share Tips, Encouragement, and Experiences Here🎇
Are you scheduled for surgery in November — whether it’s a lumpectomy, mastectomy, reconstruction, lymph node surgery, or another procedure? This thread is for you. This is your place to connect, ask questions, share updates, celebrate milestones, and support others who understand what it’s like to count down to surgery…
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Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
I am an "older" woman with breast cancer (I was diagnosed at 65 and am now 66). I notice that most of the posts seem to be from people younger than I am (often by quite a bit...). I'd love to "talk" with others my age, exchange info about their diagnoses, effects on their lives, etc. I see that there is a forum for young…
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Bone Mets Thread
I've started this thread after suggestions that it would be useful. Mod Note: We have removed the original link as it is no longer viable. At one of our member's' recommendation we are offering this link as a resource for you. https://youtu.be/YpFfLrITfEI
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New to this journey and terrified...
Hi! I was informed yesterday that i stage 3 breast cancer her2positive. And my treatment plan includes 5 months every 3 weeks of chemo. I want to be hopeful and remmain faithful in the Lord but im super scared of how this looks like in the next months and years! I know one step at a time but I need some encouragement. I…
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So...whats for dinner?
I thought it might be fun to start a thread on what we are having, making or had for dinner. Sometimes it is the best tuna steak you ever had, sometimes it's a can of soup. But we all do it every night in some form or another. Maybe we can give each other ideas on what to make, or bitch about what we had, or the fact that…
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thread for middle age to older Christian women.
I would like to start a forum to meet other middle age or older women who have bc and love the Lord. Try to live your life for him, walk the walk and talk the talk. Of course we all fall from grace because we are human but we are covered by the blood of Jesus. Also this forum is for people who has a large enough vocabulary…
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My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
As I go through this forced path I have been thrown down, I have come to realize the love I have always had for my husband was strong. He is amazing and I love him with my very soul and entire heart. Never would I ever imagine the thought of dying and him being alone. Then the worst part hit me!! I can't seem to shake the…
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Wednesday Weigh In
Some of us on the Let's Post our Daily Exercise thread decided that it might help keep us honest if we had to post our weekly losses or gains. Not posting your weight - just your net loss or gain. So here goes!
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Lets Post our Daily Exercise
I'm doing the Firm Cardio Step mix and will walk the dog for a mile later today. Lorrie
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Abemaciclib Verzenio for Stage IV
Luckylegs and friends on Abemaciclib - I am bumping the Verzenio discussion in the hopes that more people have started abemaciclib. We need to get a community going. I have not started abemaciclib but it is on my short list. Like many I am very interested in how people do on this treatment do, both as a monotherapy and in…
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Coming off tamoxifen early to have a baby
Hi everyone I'm a little lonely over here in the UK and was hoping to find some kindred spirits. I'm now almost two years on from my diagnosis. I was diagnosed with Her 2+, weakly ER+ breast cancer in April 09 at the age of 37 about three months before we were due to be married and a few weeks after completion of our first…
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Mets to Lung
Hello, I'm 65 and have now been diagnosed with mets to my right lung following a pleural effusion. Probably mets to hips and ribs but awaiting a bone scan to confirm. I started Letrozole yesterday and in 3 weeks will start Abemaciclib in 3 weeks. My original BC was IDC Micropapillary Stage IIIa, Grade 3, with extensive LVI…
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How can breast symmetry be corrected when tissue expander pockets have formed at different heights?
I had a bilateral mastectomy with immediate above-the-muscle tissue expander reconstruction a few months ago, and I’m trying to figure out how to achieve the best possible symmetry with the implant exchange. My breasts were naturally symmetrical before surgery, so I’m struggling with the possibility of ending up with…
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Long term "high oncotype test" survivors
Is there any long term survivors who have had a high oncotype score. I know that this test is relatively new but I also know that it has been on the market at least 4 years. So I know that "long term" regarding this test isn't very long term. I had it done 3 years and 4 months ago. My oncotype score was 52. My onc told me…
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STARTING THP IN NOVEMBER 2026
I'M STARTING THP ON NOVEMBER 2ND AFTER JUST FINISHING 4 CYCLES OF ENHERTU WITH A 3 WEEK SCHEDULE. MY T IS PACLITAXOL AND WILL BE EVERY WEEK, WHILE THE H AND P WILL BE EVERY 3 WEEKS CONCURRENTLY. I'VE READ THE FIRST INFUSION IS LENGTHY WTH THE POSSIBILITY OF INFUSION REACTIONS. UGH! 5 TO 6 HRS? HOW HAVE YOU ALL DONE WITH…