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Fear of cancer returning never far from my mind, is this normal? Also, I'm trying to find out the long term impact of chemo. Can anyone help?

Carole63
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Hello all

I'm hoping to find more information about the long-term impact of chemotherapy on my body. I've been in remission for nearly 8 years now from breast cancer and I have a few health niggles. I've tried the obvious Google search to research known changes that chemo causes but I'm struggling to find much research based stuff. Can anyone recommend any helpful sites or studies please?

On a slightly different note-is it normal to live in almost constant fear of it returning and of suspecting that every illness/pain is due to it returning?

thanks for reading x

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    Hi Carole

    I had cancer 20 years ago and now it is back again. To my surprise the side effects are minimal over the long term. Also it depends on what regime of chemo you received. Along the 20 years I forgot about my cancer. My treatment  in 2004was ABVD so your treatment and long term effects might differ. 

    you need to work on your fear foof the future as normally you have a 10% chance of cancer returning in my case. Thee NHS has wonderfull documentation on various cancers and the answers might be in there. What cancer do you have?

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    Hi

    Firstly I’m so sorry to hear that your cancer has returned. I wish you all the best for the future.

    I’m in remission from breast cancer which had spread to my lymph nodes. I had T-Fec. I will check out the NHS- thanks for the suggestion.

    All the best

    carole 

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