Hi ScottyB
Welcome to the Breast Cancer Care discussion forums where I am sure you will get lots of good, honest support from the many informed users of this site.
To help you along I have put for you below links to some of BCC's publications you might find helpful. Also our helpline team are just a free phone call away if you need someone to talk to in confidence. 0808 800 6000 lines open Mon-Fri 9-5 and Sat 10-2
Take care,
Jo, Moderator
Hi Alis
So sorry about your diagnosis. We can all well understand your feeling lonely although surrounded by other people. The fact that those people haven't a clue what it feels like to be diagnosed with breast cancer means they don't know how to react to you. Especially with you being so young.
As for the hormones making your cancer worse, I assume your cancer is Oestrogen/Progestrogen sensitive? So was mine. The tablets they give you isn't hormene replacement therapy, they will be tablets that STOP your body from producing Oestrogen. I suspec t that as you are under 50, you will be given Tamoxifen. the other treatment they will give you, depending on the type, the grade etc, do not contain any hormones at all. The aim is to get rid of your cancer, not make it worse - although I can understand the confusion when most of the doctors talk about hormone therapy. It is to prevent hormones for being formed in your body, not to put more in.
May I suggest that you ask your Breast Cancer Care Nurse (I assume they have assigned one to you) those questions, or ring the nurses on this site, it is a free number and they are all qualified to answer any queries you must surely have.
Good luck with the scans, they are usually standard procedure just to be on the safe side.
Take care
Poemsgalore xx
Hi Alis531
Welcome to the Breast Cancer Care discussion forums, you've come to the right place for some good, honest support from the many informed users of this site.
While you are waiting for replies, I have put for you below links to some of BCC's publications you might find helpful. Also our helpline team are just a free phone call away, 0808 800 6000 lines open Mon-Fri 9-5 and Sat 10-2
Below I have put the link to the area of this site dedicated to younger women, I hope you find this helpful too.
Take care,
Jo, Moderator