Hi Jillian, welcome to the site and sorry to hear your story. My mom had non-muscle invasive BC and recieved BCG which she felt nothing except difficult to hold for at least 2 hours before discharging the drugs. Apparently my mom did not react to BCG at all and about half a year later, the BC advanced to muscle invasive. She then received radiation and chemo (cisplatin) therapies. She has experienced relatively mild side-effects like weakness and nausea. Now she is cancer free!! For years now, she too dyes her hair brown every other month but we don’t know if that has anything to do with her BC. Anyway please be strong and hopeful!
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