I couldn't find much info online. A family member just finished up her last chemo a week before thanksgiving. She has a scan in early december and starts radiation a couple weeks afterwards. She had a double mastectomy in may. But there are some unique factors. For one, she's only 46 and has already beaten stage 4 colon cancer. The colon cancer was diagnosed 3 years ago and they gave her 2 years to live, but she beat the odds and was declared disease free untill they found spots on her liver and bladder, which they subsequently removed and she was again disease free until the breast cancer. To date, she has had a partial bowel removal, partial bladder removal, complete hysterectomy, and double mastectomy. She's a relatively new family member, so we don't want to ask too many questions, but we already care a lot about her and wanted to know what might happen.Thursday, December 8, 2011
What Is The Prognosis For Stage 3 Invasive Ductile Carcinoma?
I couldn't find much info online. A family member just finished up her last chemo a week before thanksgiving. She has a scan in early december and starts radiation a couple weeks afterwards. She had a double mastectomy in may. But there are some unique factors. For one, she's only 46 and has already beaten stage 4 colon cancer. The colon cancer was diagnosed 3 years ago and they gave her 2 years to live, but she beat the odds and was declared disease free untill they found spots on her liver and bladder, which they subsequently removed and she was again disease free until the breast cancer. To date, she has had a partial bowel removal, partial bladder removal, complete hysterectomy, and double mastectomy. She's a relatively new family member, so we don't want to ask too many questions, but we already care a lot about her and wanted to know what might happen.
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Denisedds - It isn’t the breast cancer that is the big concern it is the colon cancer.
ReplyDeleteThe 5 year survival rate is 10%. Disease free does not mean anyone has beat cancer it means we are not able to detect any residual disease, but that doesn’t mean it is not there.
Q - Not great. Basically, she's going to be fighting one cancer or another for the rest of her life.
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