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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Chemo and radiation do not stop all cancers to be sure. Young womens breast cancer is almost always the worst form. And some cancer is so advanced when discovered that nothing can arrest it. There are many variables and cancer is really many diseases.
But when you are diagnosed, you don't have time to get a medical degree, you have to find the best medical facility and go by what they say.
When a person has a form of cancer in a stage that is irreversible then no treatment can save them but in many cases it can make it into almost a long time chronic condition with pretty liveable years to enjoy.
I almost foam at the mouth when I hear people like Suzanne Sommers say not to have chemo and radiation.
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Well, these doctors and nurses live with the disease every day at the hospital and oncology center and I assure you they are not as "ditzy" as Suzanne Sommers who may have had a mild form of the cancer which had not metastacized. I don't know her personal story, but she's still alive. I also know women in their 80's now who had ductal breast cancer when young and are still alive (the milk ducts). They did have mastectomies back then but NO chemo.
The aggressive form is just that.......aggressive. The young moms I referred to, leaving behind children under age 12, had all of the very best modern treatment and yet it still spread to their ribs, their lungs, their bones, their brains, their eyeballs, you name it.......very very sad.
Their adrenal glands, their liver and kidneys......this was AFTER radical mastectomy, reconstruction surgery of the two breasts and aggressive chemotherapy and radiation..........everyone is different obviously.
I've often wondered if the "cells" don't migrate during the reconstructive surgery???? Obviously, cancer cells are invisible to the surgeon's eye at the time of surgery. I pray for them all.