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Anyone have experience with APBI (Partial Breast Irradiation)?
Anyone familiar with external partial radiation for early stage BC? I am 8 weeks post lumpectomy and deciding on radiation for my left breast...which has...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Feb 16 1:08pm
Anemia after breast cancer treatment?
HiFinish treatment april second. E r p r positive breast cancer stage zero. Twenty radiation treatments in ten days. Have been feeling Extreme fatigue and...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 15, 2024
What are the effects of Herceptin for HER2 positive? Not doing chemo
I recently had a partial mastectomy for 2 invasive carcinomas, 1.5 cm and 1.4cm. I both are hormone positive, and one is HER2 positive. I...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 14 6:47pm
Tips for Breast Cancer warriors
Thought we could share some things that have worked for us. 2 tips: Take Arimidex at night Don’t bother changing before radiation treatments. I simply...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jan 8, 2024
FAST-Forward: Anyone had Ultra-hypofractionated Radiotherapy?
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has had FAST-Forward/Ultra-Hyprofractionation radiation therapy for breast cancer. My radiation oncologist is recommending this for me....
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Feb 28, 2021
Venlafaxine for hormone flashes
Hi I am 10wks out from radiation and 8 mths from stopping hrt which I was on for 10yrs. Having wicked pms symptoms and depression...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 27, 2024
Struggling-cancer is back, switching to TDM1
I have metastatic breast cancer, triple positive I made it over two years on Herceptin and was NEAD. My PET scan today showed there is...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: 19 hours ago
Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome: How are you coping?
Has anyone been diagnosed with post mastectomy pain syndrome and how are they coping with it? I had bilateral mastectomies almost 4 years ago and...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Mar 25 5:12am
Anyone else get breast cancer after bilateral mastectomy?
What are the chances of getting breast cancer again after bilateral mastectomy with diep reconstruction? First BC…DCIS right breast with radiation and tamoxifen. Second BC...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Feb 13, 2024
My experience with proton beam therapy & breast cancer
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2016 - Stage 1A, triple positive, 1.5 cm, left breast, sentinel lymph node was negative. I chose...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Dec 30, 2025
Pain and tightness axila to bottom of rib cage
4 months after a week of hypo - fractionated radiation RX and lumpectomy I have developed tenderness under affected axila and tightness on same side...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 25, 2025
Lumpectomy scar healing time
Hi, has anyone had a lumpectomy followed by radiation and a car that still was pretty raw after a considerable amount of time? My scar...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Nov 14, 2020
Recurrence IBC in scar tissue after 5years
Hi, just had surgery to remove cancer in scar tissue recurrence after 5years. Had doubled mastectomy in 2018, a complete node dissection. Was treated with...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 27, 2023
What treatment decisions did you make with stage 1, Oncotype 34?
Hi, I was just wondering has anybody else had stage one, lymph nodes clear, a lumpectomy, three of three fast growing, and an oncatype of...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Feb 24 8:40am
LCIS - help me make it make sense
ER and PR+ LCIS and ALH from core needle mri guided biopsy. Discovered on mri. Very dense breast tissue. Family history of Ovarian cancer. 54,...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jul 7, 2025
BI-RADS 3 Question
A couple of days ago I had a mammogram and an ultrasound. It has been 6 months since my breast radiation. The doctor on the...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Apr 30, 2022
Positive margin in breast for DCIS
I know you can’t give advice, just looking to hear your experiences on missed margins. Had stage 2 ER/PR, Hers2-, 1.8 breast and one lymph...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Jul 28, 2025
How To Decide Next Steps After Lumpectomy.
I am 66 years old and I had a lumpectomy and oncoplastic breast reduction on June 23 after being diagnosed with IDC IA, pT1a, pN0(sn),...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Sep 26, 2021
Skin changes on breast
Long story short. I had a left breast lumpectomy and 35 sessions of radiation for TNBC ductal carcinoma in situ in 2012. 2021 I had...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: Oct 3, 2024
Aromatase Inhibitors: How to choose and manage side effects?
I was diagnosed in April 2024 stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma - estrogen positive. I had lumpectomy and radiation my onco score was 12 so...
Support Group: Breast Cancer
Last active: 21 hours ago