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Forum: Share Your Experiences Of Life After A Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Share your experiences of life after a breast cancer diagnosis and offer advice on how you cope with life's daily challenges, including how you develop a new daily/weekly routine while you deal with breast cancer.

• Marriage/committed partnerships-your inspirations, your stories

  1 Posts 119 Views

  Created by: Moderators on Jan 29, 2016 01:44PM

  Latest post: Jan 29, 2016 01:44PM by Moderators

• 2017 Diagnosed-- A Place To Share "What's Next"

  1,648 Posts 20,380 Views

  Created by: DodgersGirl on Nov 30, 2017 03:37PM

  Latest post: 3 hours ago by runor

• Anyone else feel good, like they don't have cancer?

  80 Posts 1,903 Views

  Created by: illimae on Nov 17, 2017 07:32PM

  Latest post: 15 hours ago by DebAL

• Air travel after mastectomy?

  3 Posts 33 Views

  Created by: BCboard63 on Jan 17, 2020 10:58AM

  Latest post: Jan 17, 2020 02:56PM by BCboard63

• Stop Smoking Support Thread

  13,157 Posts 172,972 Views

  Created by: webwriter on Jan 13, 2009 11:12PM

  Latest post: Jan 16, 2020 11:40AM by VJSL8

• Wish I wasn't so depressed.

  32 Posts 500 Views

  Created by: arizonaboundgal on Dec 2, 2019 04:34PM

  Latest post: Jan 14, 2020 09:19PM by Laurencl

• Diagnosed/treated 2018 -- Sharing our "what's next"

  185 Posts 2,855 Views

  Created by: Beaverntx on Dec 10, 2018 08:53AM

  Latest post: Jan 4, 2020 10:08AM by flowergal

• Having to give up dream because of cancer.

  5 Posts 134 Views

  Created by: dysonsphere on Dec 24, 2019 10:35AM

  Latest post: Dec 24, 2019 07:19PM by exbrnxgrl

• How has your BC experience changed you

  144 Posts 4,749 Views

  Created by: Moderators on Nov 18, 2014 07:26AM

  Latest post: Dec 23, 2019 02:40PM by AnnC2019

• Yearly mammos

  13 Posts 112 Views

  Created by: speace on Mar 10, 2019 07:50PM

  Latest post: Dec 21, 2019 09:16PM by Jelson

• "Nesting" before follow-ups

  9 Posts 93 Views

  Created by: Catsme on Jul 15, 2019 11:32AM

  Latest post: Dec 20, 2019 09:06PM by AliceBastable

• I have no idea what I should do.

  9 Posts 172 Views

  Created by: CidneyI on Nov 14, 2019 01:18PM

  Latest post: Nov 16, 2019 11:31AM by SimoneRC

• Cancer Cluster?

  7 Posts 100 Views

  Created by: rozem on Nov 5, 2019 02:22PM

  Latest post: Nov 6, 2019 09:44AM by rozem

• I keep meeting women affected by breast cancer everywhere.

  8 Posts 190 Views

  Created by: WC3 on Oct 17, 2019 05:12PM

  Latest post: Nov 5, 2019 01:01PM by WC3

• Doctors who have breast cancer themselves

  3 Posts 85 Views

  Created by: evelyn7 on Nov 3, 2019 07:01PM

  Latest post: Nov 3, 2019 09:16PM by Yogatyme

• Life, or spiritual coaches during survivorship

  2 Posts 26 Views

  Created by: Mama2BC on May 8, 2019 07:51AM

  Latest post: Nov 1, 2019 02:00PM by LoveLau

• Can stress alone can give you BC

  12 Posts 241 Views

  Created by: Dhanno on Jun 7, 2018 02:50AM

  Latest post: Oct 13, 2019 12:12PM by rozem

• Can anastrozole cause blood vessels to break on lips

  1 Posts 12 Views

  Created by: viewfinder on Sep 23, 2019 07:14PM

  Latest post: Sep 23, 2019 07:14PM by viewfinder

• Using MRI to Follow Previously Diagnosed Women Finds More BC

  9 Posts 168 Views

  Created by: Moderators on Aug 7, 2019 02:58PM

  Latest post: Sep 14, 2019 08:00PM by jessie123

• Podcast: Cancer-Related Fatigue: What It Is & How to Manage It

  1 Posts 17 Views

  Created by: Moderators on Jul 9, 2019 03:03PM

  Latest post: Jul 9, 2019 03:03PM by Moderators

• BCO Blog: Breast Cancer Changed My Body, so I Redefined My Style

  1 Posts 15 Views

  Created by: Moderators on Jul 9, 2019 02:41PM

  Latest post: Jul 9, 2019 02:41PM by Moderators

• Any experience with Texas Oncology?

  7 Posts 103 Views

  Created by: Texas357 on Mar 5, 2019 10:27AM

  Latest post: Jun 9, 2019 06:59AM by Texas357

• We need a cure for breast cancer *ssholes!

  4 Posts 116 Views

  Created by: LaughingGull on May 12, 2019 01:01PM

  Latest post: May 12, 2019 07:46PM by AliceBastable

• How to change doctor

  6 Posts 71 Views

  Created by: Butterfly1234 on Apr 25, 2019 09:44AM

  Latest post: Apr 26, 2019 07:42AM by Butterfly1234

• Your new normal...What is it?

  10 Posts 303 Views

  Created by: ctmbsikia on Mar 18, 2019 12:28PM

  Latest post: Apr 19, 2019 10:44AM by ctmbsikia

• tamoxifen/ using different generic vs brand?

  7 Posts 50 Views

  Created by: Percyb on Mar 31, 2019 11:11PM

  Latest post: Apr 1, 2019 02:37PM by Percyb

• What is the usual Oncology follow-up

  19 Posts 373 Views

  Created by: mudd on May 31, 2018 10:47AM

  Latest post: Mar 1, 2019 07:26AM by edwards750

• Cancer Patient's Bill of Rights

  6 Posts 87 Views

  Created by: santabarbarian on Feb 8, 2019 10:07AM

  Latest post: Feb 19, 2019 12:51PM by Traveltext

• Getting better with family

  1 Posts 38 Views

  Created by: Karmic108 on Feb 13, 2019 06:05PM

  Latest post: Feb 13, 2019 06:05PM by Karmic108

• 2014 Diagnosed - How are you doing?

  26 Posts 539 Views

  Created by: PerAngusta on Aug 1, 2017 03:56AM

  Latest post: Dec 17, 2018 03:21AM by PerAngusta