Breast cancer
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Current topics:

• - Telling your family and friends about your diagnosis
  A breast cancer survivor : “Telling friends and family was really hard. Since my mother had died from breast cancer it felt like I was saying, ‘Here we go again.’ My sister-in-law had died from
• - Sources of comfort during breast cancer treatment
  Hello ladies, Today I would like to know what comforted you during or after your cancer treatment? Was there any particular tv show or books Did you suddenly become attached to any comfort blankets
• - Breast cancer recurrence
  Hello all, I haven't been on here in quite a while.... I was diagosed and treated around 4 years ago now and had a lumectomy. In the past few months I'd been feeling some discomfort and tenderness in

Current topics:

• - A Leading Oncology Association Says Some Complementary Therapies Are Helpful to Women With Breast Cancer
  The American Society of Clinical Oncology, the world’s leading group of cancer doctors, has released guidelines on the use of integrative health therapies to help manage the symptoms and side effect
• - Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy
  About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It follows trials of a genetic test that analyses the danger of a
• - Six months of breast cancer treatment ‘could be as effective as 12 in some women’
  Six months of targeted drug therapy could potentially be as effective as treatment lasting 12 months for women with a type of early stage breast cancer. This is according to unpublished clinical tria

Current topics:

• - Treatment plan for breast cancer
  Hello everyone, When diagnosed, how much did your doctors include you in your treatment plan? How does your plan look? Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy - or
• - Side effects after radiotherapy - What have you experienced?
  I finished radiotherapy 8 days ago for breast cancer.  No reaction while I was having it now it’s red sore, itchy, with little red spots.  Any advice, have been putting E45 on twice a day. 
• - What do you think about your current treatment?
  Breast cancer treatment plan can vary from one person to another, even though there is always a common base. I invite you to talk about your experience, compare your opinions and views on the subject

Current topics:

• - Recurrence breast cancer
  Hi I had bc earlier this yr, lumpectomy April followed by radiotherapy. All has been fine until 1.5 weeks ago when I started to suffer pain, hot skin, hardening and slight orange peel on the same brea
• - What was your age and symptoms initially experienced at onset?
  Hello everyone, With breast cancer, a common warning sign is sharp pain or a lump with tenderness in  the breast. However, each person may have varying warning signs/symptoms that induce them to see
• - After the surgery
  Surgery is an important part of the treatment which can change the course of illness and determine the next steps. What were your next steps after you had surgery? Were you well-informed before the su