It’s been seven days since Lou’s oncologist dropped the mother of all bombs on our lives. Yeah, we’d been living with cancer for over a year. Yeah, Lou had been brutalised with 14 months of barbaric treatment. Yeah, it disrupted our lives as we ran the cancer gauntlet while trying…
Diagnosis date: June 2017 – Stage IIA (cT2N0) triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. 22mm. Ki67 60% Chemo: Started 12 July 2017 – Neo-adjuvant chemotherapy Three rounds of FEC and three rounds of D (12Jul17 – 24Oct17) From my memory, the tumour shrunk slightly in the first…
Biopsy To confirm receptor status and provide tissue for further testing re clinical trial eligibility Consider radiotherapy to rib lesion for pain relief (best to do early rather than need to interrupt systemic treatment) Dr Marita Morgia’s team to arrange appointment Clinical trial JAVELIN PARP Medley trial (avelumab plus talazoparib)–…
When you first find out that you have breast cancer, your doctor searches for the presence or absence of three receptors, proteins that live inside or on the surface of a cell and bind to something in the body to cause the cell to react. You may have heard of…
If you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with cancer, you know how overwhelming it can feel. Maybe you’re also getting a lot of confusing information and advice. The more you know, the more confident you’ll feel making decisions. That’s the way I see it. If you asked…