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Breast awareness

Discuss how to check your breasts and what changes to look out for.

14 Topics with 118 Posts

Latest: intense itching in one breast only and 2 flat lumps

Hi Nigela Completely agree with everyone else, please go to GP. Obviously, keep in mind it could be fine and don't think twice about bothering doc (use mine, or someone else's example). I had intense itching in top left of breast in Sept last year. D...

diepcat, Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:51 pm
Using the discussion forums

How to get started, read our terms and conditions.

5 categories, 33 Topics with 434 Posts

Latest: Radiotherapy at Parkside,Wimbledon

Hi Debs & Deirdre, Thanks for all the useful info,I'm gonna try not to worry myself about it,you'll think I'm being daft anyway as I've still got 3 more chemos,then surgery before I start on rads, but you know what it's like when you lie awake in the ...

little h, Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:25 pm
Worried

Do you have symptoms which make you think you could have cancer? Have you a worrying family history? Are you waiting for results to tell if you have cancer?

4 categories, 1564 Topics with 15674 Posts

Latest: So very worried!!

Well ladies it's seems its good news,firstly i would like to thank you for your replies and reassurance. It seems i have a cluster of cysts and the specialist said that to try and drain them would be difficult because they are deep rooted,and he also s...

dj, Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:52 pm
Diagnosis

What does your diagnosis mean? Ask others who are in the same situation

4 categories, 1433 Topics with 22261 Posts

Latest: friends needed- diagnoised early may

Hello All, MUMSZY is back!! Got 2nd FECCING FEC On thursday. Evie so pleased you havent been too badly effected. Ive only been away since Tuesday and its taken me a whole day to read back through everybody's posts. Having awful trouble sleeping hence t...

mumszy, Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:14 am
Treatment & side effects

Confused about your treatment options or worried about what side effects you may experience? Share you experience here.

6 categories, 4666 Topics with 69559 Posts

Latest: Advice on chemo

Few days away with my man were fantastic, we found a converted barn on a farm which we have taken for 6 months.. Our first home together and Im so excited. Downside is very poor mobile pick up there, no freeview and no internet!! Ill have to become a p...

mumszy, Sun Jul 05, 2009 3:19 am
Living with breast cancer

Talk about both the medical and social issues which can affect your life now.

7 categories, 2889 Topics with 28990 Posts

Latest: Bulge on side under arm after LD recon

Like you, the only option available to me was the LD flap. I am 4 months on and overall I am glad I had it done. In a bra I look quite normal, the reconstruction gives me a cleavage which you cannot achieve with a prosthesis. Four months on from the...

laika, Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:27 am
Living with secondary breast cancer

Speak with others whose breast cancer has spread to another part of the body.

1555 Topics with 21701 Posts

Latest: Do you have an incurable regional recurrence?

I'm bringing this to the top again because the seething with which I started this thread has now become full scale rant at the inadequacy of information and support for those of us 'just' with regional recurrence. But rant suggests an emotional over th...

JaneRA, Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:50 pm
Talk to others in a similar situation

Do you feel isolated as a man or a younger woman? Do you want to help someone you are close to?

6 categories, 1136 Topics with 15285 Posts

Latest: Anyone in Edinburgh or the Lothians?

sue had also suggested meeting up next week but not sure if thats too short notice for everybody... cant do wed ir fri next week and dont think sue can do thurs... so maybe mon or tues next week but 28th would be fine for me later on in the month. ho...

lulu34, Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:35 pm
Your Views

Tell the community what you think.

3 categories, 629 Topics with 7288 Posts

Latest: Gardening - an alternative therapy?

I get a lot of pleasure from my garden and have always grown tomatoes every year, they taste so much better than the shop bought ones, but I would really love to start growing organic veggies. never had the time before but now feel that I have and woul...

stillstanding, Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:48 am
In Memory

4 Topics with 36 Posts

Latest: Zena27

hi, just want to say how sorry i and my sister are to hear the sad loss of lisa,my sister angela met lisa when she to was having chemo at good hope hospital,angela said she was a very brave lady and will miss her company.to her family we are thinking o...

gobby, Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:33 pm
Chit Chat

The place to socialise, relax and enjoy each other's company!

507 Topics with 75655 Posts

Latest: THREE WORD STORY

which hardly cover

Bubs1955, Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:41 pm
Archive

Previous discussions. Remember treatments may have changed since these posts were made.

19 categories, 7544 Topics with 63584 Posts

Latest: Need some Help and support - My Mum

Hi! You seem to have put this new thread under the Archive section, so you may not get many replies. Perhaps you should re-post under "Living with Secondary Breast Cancer" section? Sorry I can't be of any help with your questions.

redders, Fri Feb 06, 2009 5:57 pm