Breast Cancer Support Group

I have been diagnosed with Invasive Ductal c. It is R+, P+, and HER2 -, Ki67 is 23% and Grade 3. (Nottingham score?). It is...

I’ve been having on and off night sweats since my surgery. Has anyone else experienced this? I had a mastectomy and a lumpectomy

Newly diagnosed, yesterday! My pcp had breast cancer and so she filled me in a bit. She mentioned lumpectomy then maybe moving on to mastectomy....

Good morning. I am 34, in the IDC club and up to my eyeballs with conflicting information. My surgeon extremely favors double mastectomy where other...

This was news to me as I searched for a bra to have after my surgery and found out this. Your surgeon can write a...

I thought I would pass along some information that I tried on my wife with good results. She`s had constant pain, and "electric shock zingers...

I have grade 1, Well Differentiated Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer. It is 9 mm. Because I can not have radiation after the Lumpectomy (I had...

I am 46 and three weeks into my stage 1, IDC, HR+, HERS- diagnosis. I have two small tumors in one breast. My genetic testing...

Hello, I have been reading posts since shortly after I was diagnosed in early June with ILC. It has been quite informative, has made me...

Hi, A few weeks after my 42 birthday, I was diagnosed with stage 1 grade 1 invasive lobular carcinoma and found out I am a...

I will know more after next mammogram and MRI this fall, but my after surgery mammogram was not clean. I believe I posted earlier that...

Receiving mixed messages... articles and doctors saying lumpectomy with radiation is better for me... understood that I needed radiation and tamoxifen either way. My mother...

Hey everybody. I'll try to keep it short. Just had a 2nd lumpectomy last week. Diagnosed with DCIS last December. Had a rough time deciding...

Hi all, My first time here. Never did this before. But here goes. I was just diagnosed with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC) Stage 1, less...

I had 2 consults this week. One recommended lumpectomy followed by radiation, then AI, and one for mastectomy with AI. One surgeon confident I didn’t...

After a Lumpectomy, I am now told that I would need a mastectomy, since cancer is pass margins. What can I expect with this procedure...

I had DCIS 12 years ago with lumpectomy and radiation. I now have IDC, and my only option is a mastectomy. I’m 72 and have...

Just thinking how did you all decide between a lumpectomy or a mastectomy? I just don't know. I know I would not like to worry...

I had a double mastectomy two years ago, after a lumpectomy 7 years before that, I needed chemo and radiation both times. My first was...

I was diagnosed with ILC in dec2023. I just had a lumpectomy and they removed 3 small tumors grade 1 and 3 lymph nodes. My...