My triple negative breast cancer journey, 07 June 2024 - Present
A note. This is one person's experience of one cancer, one treatment plan and one body. It is not medical advice, and your treatment may look nothing like mine. Anything here that sounds relevant to you is a question for your own oncology team, not a conclusion. Drug names, doses and schedules are recorded as they were given to me at the time. Some entries include photographs of surgical scars and of blistered hands and feet. June 2024 07JUN24 - Fri: Diagnosis revealed. My breast surgeon (who has removed a suspicious lump a year prior which ended up being PASH tissue) phones me and tells me that I have triple negative breast cancer and I can not go on my early July two week trip to Europe as preoperative chemo needs to start straight away. OMG! [Background: I have had my breasts monitored on an annual basis for approximately 6 years, as I have dense breast tissue that can make sonographers nervous (lots of stuff happening on the images), lots of cysts that come and go and dense ti...