DOCETAXEL vs ETOPOSIDE

I just want to share my experience, I have frequented this sub occasionally since my diagnosis. I am a 37y old single gay man. Apparently breast cancer in men my age is incredibly rare. Just bad luck I suppose as there was nothing striking on the genetic tests. I was diagnosed in Nov 22. Since

I HAVE ACHIEVED PCR!!!!!!! I had my lumpectomy on Monday morning and the pathology just came back this afternoon. All margins clear, all lymph nodes clear. I was diagnosed in February at age 36 with TNBC, Stage IIB, and a Ki-67 of >90%. I joined the SCARLET clinical trial and did 6 rounds of Key

Hey everyone, It’s been just over three months since my father passed away, in April 2025. I feel like I’ve only now finally processed enough of the initial grief to put it all together. I’m sharing his story from the beginning to the end to honor him and in the hope that it can be useful to othe

I’m not asking for anything specific. I feel like I am all alone and that my experience with breast cancer is so different from others’. I feel so isolated and hopeless. I’m 51 and was in good shape and otherwise healthy when diagnosed with IDC hormone negative HER2 positive in late June. Small pri

Yesterday I was convinced that I will not need chemo due to what my surgical oncologist told me... she said if I'm HER2 negative (which I am) and if they find no lymph node involvement after surgery/SLNB (also true for me) then I can skip chemo and move directly to radiation and hormone therapy. But

First off, this is a follow up to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/cancer/comments/1hcxvaz/today_i_have_officially_crossed_the_halfway_point/) where I discussed my progress at halfway, so it felt relevant to follow up now that I'm on the downside and headed towards healing. Secondly, this is no

Hey everyone, I’ve been reading this subreddit for a while but finally decided to post. My dad is 59 and was diagnosed with prostate cancer about two years ago. It had already spread to his bones when they found it (de novo metastatic). He started with androgen deprivation therapy, which worked for

At my wife's job in an infusion center, she mixes chemotherapy drugs like Taxol, oxaliplatin, docetaxel, and cytoxin. She does the mixing under a fume hood, wearing a gown and gloves. There is no separation in her mixing room between the chemo drugs and the rheumatology drugs. The room is not negati

As a survivor of testicular cancer I want to take every opportunity to raise awareness about testicular cancer as this is a cancer thats risk pool closely mirrors my demographic, the demographic of this sub, and Reddit as a whole. It is the most common cancer among men between 20-34 years of age an

God, I don't even know where to begin. I'm so depressed. And it's weird because the first time I had cancer back when I was 17 actually brought me out of a major depression. See, I had been so sickly and unwell for months before the actual cancer diagnosis. They misdiagnosed me with and treated me f

This past November I went to work as usual, only to arrive at my customers home feeling a bit off. After apologizing for being under the weather I proceeded to head back home, thinking I had a bit of a bug. By the time I made it home I was in pretty significant pain, and after trying to sleep it o

As the title says I just had an experience which put me in the hospital for 4 days. A little background context: I am a fairly healthy 42 m and was diagnosed with testicular cancer back in March, had surgery in April to remove, and began discussing follow up in May. My doctor and I decided that beca

Hi everyone, I was recently diagnosed with a rare type of ovarian cancer. I've had the main tumour surgically removed, and right now I'm going through fertility preservation before I can start chemo. I've been looking into tips and tricks for dealing with all the side effects from chemo and I've see

Hello everyone! In January of 2021, my father began to have some abdominal pains. He had a history of these pains, always taking Tums on a regular basis. Tums would normally help, and if it didn't Mylanta or Maalox would do the trick. This time was a little different however, where his pains would n

I pulled the evidence out of the file and then stuffed it in a drawer and piled other papers on top of it. I wanted it to look like it wasn’t of interest if someone went looking. But the little slip of paper that told me he was a dirty liar? I kept that. Read it. Took a photo of it and hid that phot