Hi - day 6 after Surgery - I’m British and a teacher in an international school but being treated in Germany - so welcome English speaking forum - to be clear it is not the classic feel a lump - everything has been picked up on Screening - I was living in Spain until last August and had my annual screening (I’m all for this - screening starts at 45 in Spain) but my employer gave us the choice to have annual screening- to go back I had a suspect ultrasound and mammogram (called BIRADS3) so was told to go for another ultrasound 6 months later - which I did in January - and a lump around 6mm was visible which was confirmed as malignant via biopsy - 2 weeks later I have had surgery including wire guided marking for two 3mm suspect lumps - total hospital stay 4 nights - i came out of hospital on Monday (had a lumpectomy and sentinel node removal - all on public health) Now I’m waiting for results of op - have a tumor conference next week - where all options considered and all medical team treating me present (radiologist, surgeon, consultant etc) do they happen in uk??
I am ER+PR+ HER2-
Please get as many people as you can to sign the petition for screening as I am really scared that if I’d have been in the UK my cancer would not have been detected until much later.
Wondering how many of you work whilst having rads - if I could still teach for example?