Hi all,

New here!

In short, my partners mum was diagnosed with stage 1 triple negative breast cancer in December 21 and she had the lump removed, had chemotherapy and rung the bell when treatment was over in November 22. They done a mammogram at the end of it and all was clear and hadn’t spread. That of course wasn’t the case!! 

In May 23 (this year) she was then told the cancer had spread to distant areas (lung, brain and adrenal gland) so they firstly removed 2 tumours from the brain and have started chemotherapy again. She had her 3rd session today. 

Today we had had news to say the cancer has now spread to her eyes. She has had poor sight ever since the brain operation and still cannot see properly/hardly at all. 

She will now be on treatment for the foreseeable in order to prolong her life. She cannot be cured as the cancer has metastasised. 

I feel that because of the nature of the cancer to begin with, they should have done a full body scan at the end of the very first treatment for the triple negative breast cancer because of how likely it is to spread. Them doing a mammogram of course only showed if it had cleared from the breast which it had. My partner mentioned this to them and they said they were sorry. It’s just not the answer to it all :(

I feel like it’s just bad news after bad news so I just wanted to see if anyone had a story of a similar situation as I can’t see anything online and her situation just seems so rare and unfortunate. TNBC is apparently rare and so is the cancer spreading to the adrenal gland. I guess I just want to hear a happy story from someone to ease our minds. My partner is beside himself :(

Thank you all. Wish you all well.

Charlotte xx