Breast cancer
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Current topics:

• - Breast cancer: How to deal with the anxiety of waiting for test results?
  Had biopsies and detailed mamogramme on Friday so now it a wait of two weeks for results. So frightened.
• - Can you take vitamin D with breast cancer?
  Hi, I was talking to someone during my session the other day and she mentioned that taking vitamin D could help with breast cancer. Has anyone else heard of this? Can we take vitamin D supplements?
• - What type of breast cancer do you have?
  In this discussion you can name the type of your cancer and identify other patients with the same type and talk about it together.

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 This is according to unpublished clinical tria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:

• - Coping with Lectrozole or other estrogen inhibitors
  Please can anyone say what they did to prevent or cope with side effects of Letrozole or other estrogen inhibitors?  .Also has anyone had very few side effects ? Thanks in advance x
• - Lumpectomy: Share your questions, experiences, advice
  In this discussion I invite you to share your experience with lumpectomy, to help others who are going to go through this type of operation with advice on how to prepare for the surgery, how it procee
• - How to deal with radiotherapy?
  some advice ,how to deal with radiotherapy

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