Metaplastic Breast Cancer

Metaplastic Breast Cancer and how to survive it

Metaplastic breast cancer and how to survive it. This simple straightforward presentation is for anyone with metaplastic breast cancer. Or anyone that knows anyone with metaplastic breast cancer.  Please read it and share or like. 

The more reach we get the more lives we can save X

 

Bald really can be beautiful- pictures of our metaplastic breast cancer girls

Praise the bald head!! We asked several metaplastic breast cancer girls if they would please send us their hair loss journey. We are amazed at how many girls did! I know I am one in million and my hair never came back. In fact, 5 girls I know had the same problem. But it doesn't matter any more. I (we) am (are) alive and well. Please click the hair journey links below and share.

ON my wedding day 7.9.00    Chemotherapy 12.2.10 (at least I still have my eyebrows)

 

Our Metaplastic Breast Cancer website is just growing and growing.  Not only do we have close to 600 members on our Facebook group the number of girls surviving this disease is growing and growing.

Cari our web guru has been working with the girls to show positive images of women with cancer and how bald is beautiful.  Please take a look!  The most important links are

http://www.metaplasticbreastcancer.net/cont-Hair-Loss.html

 

Positivity

This past 8 months of thyroid hell and other family issues such as a very sick dog, have taken their toll.

However, finally... I am feeling better.  The thyroid meds are working.  Dotty dog is still alive and well. The kids are happy at school and making me proud.  I have a new job.  I also love my husband. 

 

Life is good.

Positivity rules.

Stopping Sugar day 7 to 14 - you talking to me?

Stopping Sugar day 7 to 14 – “you talking to me?”

 

Stopping Sugar day 7 to 14 … is the safe title … I wanted to call this “thinking of murder” but I thought I might scare somebody! 

I am finally starting to feel normal again.  Week 2 or day 7 to 14 of no sugar was terrible.  Here is my diary.

 

No sugar - start sweating

No sugar -  start sweating quick update on my no sugar diet

OH My Gosh.

 

I am now on 10 of my no sugar diet.  The first week I didn't do too much sport as I had all sorts of headaches and other problems.   This week I have been keeping myself busy. 

Confessions of a sugar addict and the no sugar diet

Confessions of a sugar addict and the no sugar diet but was toying with the title - ex-cancer chick gone bad!

I feel like a closet drug addict.  Nearly five years after my cancer diagnosis – I am on the verge of having Type 2 Diabetes.  On top of that my Thyroid has gone AWOL and left me my body in a state of shock, fatness and numbness. 

My tried and trusted oncologist Dr. Stenger shouted at me again last week.  But this time (he has been shouting since January) I decided to take notice.  He is convinced I am a sugar addict and I drink too much alcohol.  I have never believed him –but over the past two weeks I kept a diary.  I wrote down everything I ate and drank.  Yikes.  Reality call and check.  I couldn’t believe the amount of sugar that I have been eating.  I mean, I always thought I was a role model for cancer patients because I was so UBER healthy and fit.

Case Study: Do you need chemotherapy to fight metaplastic breast cancer?

Do you need chemotherapy to fight metaplastic breast cancer? This is a case study of a 70 year old woman with a tumour on her right breast and her decision to have radiation therapy only.

Welcome to the fat neck thyroid club

Welcome to the fat neck thyroid club for underactive thyroid gals....

 

Anxious?  Me?  Never…

Oh well, maybe just a little bit!

This whole chemo rollercoaster has turned my life upside down and inside out.  OK. I am cancer free.  But being cancer free also makes you a nervous crazy wreck.  Every lump, boil, mole or pimple is potential cancer. You start sleeping and thinking about a reoccurrence.  You get googleititus and become a hobby doctor on every aspect of your cancer.  Your friends find you boring as you suddenly start passing off your knowledge on to them and every fag, shot or hot dog they eat – you start to preach about eating “clean”.

Bristol-Myers Squibb NCT01928394 Can you Help Patricia?

Bristol Myers Squibb sponsors a study A Phase 1/2, Open-label Study of Nivolumab Monotherapy or Nivolumab Combined With Ipilimumab in Subjects With Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

Can you help Patricia?

She is a 60 year old cancer patient currently at MDA.  Here is a little bit about her:

Hallwang Clinic in Germany and Nicky G

I recently travelled to the Private Oncology Clinic in Hallwang Germany