Hi everyone.
My wife has recently finished her main treatments for primary breast cancer. She is 41, underwent a mastectomy and then had chemo and radio and will be on tamoxifen for 10 years. We have two young children under 10 and we have kept this away from them as far as has been possible. It has been a difficult time but we got through it just about so far - now the main treatments are done we had hoped to be able to look forward - but we are lost with fears of recurrence. She will have the usual monitoring but I know this won't include body scans etc ...
We have always followed the advice of the specialists and they have been great so far but I wanted to hear if anyone had any experience of other steps that could be taken to keep her well - and any extra monitoring we could safely have done to pick any recurrence up sooner ?
She is healthy living - always has been - so on lifestyle things she has always done the right thing not smoking or drinking and being a bit of a fitness fanatic with a healthy diet.
I am doing all I can to reassure and support her but don't want to leave any stone unturned in taking steps to keep her well. I just wondered if anyone out there had any experiences/tips ? The fear of recurrence does feel overwhelming at times and it is tough trying just to move on with normal life again.
