Hi so just diagnosed with breast cancer. This will be fourth time fighting cancer & there is a huge possibility that previous treatment has in fact caused this. I was treated for Hodgkin Lymphoma stage 4 in mid '90s , it then returned twice more. The treatment back then was aggressive. Chemo, mantle radiotherapy & eventually in '94 stem cell. Mantle radio is not done anymore due to its awful effects. Since then ive had really poor health that has got worse with every year.

I had to fight for yearly mammograms (this should be done for anyone who received mantle radiotherapy) but unfortunately Drs done really want to discuss late effects.  

Because of my past mantle radio therapy i am not allowed to have any type of radiation treatment. So I have to have  double mastectomy & removal of my remaining lymph nodes. I feel cheated by this. I cant just have 'normal treatment'. 

My husband (who has known with me since before my previous cancers) & i are not really coping with this diagnosis. Not sleeping stressed all the time.

I am absolutely sh.....g myself over going into hospital for the op. Coming out with out the girls. I already have loads of op scars from before & they never bother me but, this is turning my brain inside out.  

I tried to get help from a mcmillan lady at our local hospital who just said "Get rid of them you dont need them anymore I know a 23 year  with cancer" She didnt even ask my past history that i was that 20 something year old that lost her career, house relationships & 2 pregnancies already to having cancer. So im hoping on here someone might get my saga

Many thanks