I treated myself with OTC remedies, since my mother and her sister both were on HRT and both developed breast cancer post-menopausally. This was with the cooperation of my doctor…I took one soy supplement and one with black cohosh…the combination helped. Now I am WAY past those days…...
Uzma was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer about a year before I was diagnosed. If I remember correctly, she was already blogging and, when I was looking for others who had gone through breast cancer, I happened upon her writing. I remember reading and thinking, “wow, she puts into ...
I’ve spent a lot of time feeling like I was being melodramatic about my cancer over the last year. That because it was “only” stage 1 and wasn’t in and of itself a particularly lethal type of cancer it was wrong for me to make such a big deal out of it. That’s really mess...
There have been a couple hard deaths on the GIST support site lately. One woman hit especially hard. She was diagnosed when her youngest was 7 days old. The cyst they saw on her ultrasounds turned out to be cancer. She had a rare GIST mutation but was able to stay strong and battle...
Also hand and feet numbness which has been going on for two years, my old doctor ran tests back then, nothing conclusive, decided it was probably postpartum arthritis and I would get over it soon when I stopped breastfeeding. It never went away. It just never got worse. ...
My cancer is stage 4 ovarian, non BRAC. I think we can't always wait for a trial to take place and therefore we should go for what we feel is right for us - afterall I felt when taking Niraparib that I was a guinea pig as they still don't know what the outcome of many of ...
The breast (40%) and lung (28%) were the most common location for the primary tumour. In approximately one-third of cases, the iris metastasis was the presenting symptom of the underlying malignancy (Figure 1e). In this series 35% of cases had an accompanying choroidal metastasis. The ...