Hello Csf68, 

A warm welcome to Cancer Chat and I hope that you will find the support you need on our forum. Thank you for sharing your story and your journey living with invasive ductal carcinoma. You certainly have been through a lot treatment wise with all the chemotherapy sessions and 15 rounds of radiotherapy and all these drugs you will be on for years. I hope that the treatment has been effective even though you had a reaction to Paclitaxel. It must have been really scary for you to find two other lumps in your right breast and what a relief that these turned out to be just a cyst and some scar tissue. 

I just wanted you to know that you are not alone and I hope that you will hear from other members of our community who have received a similar diagnosis whether in the past or who are currently still living with IDC. I had a little look around the forum for you and I have found for example Suzanne-G 's thread on being recently diagnosed with High Grade DCIS and IDC HER2+ and Corkie has also posted this thread 3 months ago on being diagnosed with IDC and Pippin24 commented on that thread mentioning they were diagnosed with IDC in 2024. These are just a few examples and you are welcome to drop them a line if you would like to engage with their thread. I hope that you will soon be chatting on here to other ladies who have been diagnosed with IDC so that you can share treatment journeys and experiences. 

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator