A woman I know has been told she has breast cancer. Since then, she's had two surgeries and another is scheduled in about a week/ten days - don't recall the day right now. Was also told, it's in her blood. She has not started chemo/radiation therapy yet, apparently waiting on the results of this next surgery. Here's where the help is needed, point blank when's death calling her? i know it may seem insensitive or uncaring, both are wrong, but need a ball park figure of how long, to try and help her put her affairs on order. Thank you.
Everyone responds differently to chemo/radiation. Also, they may not know where else it has spread. In the blood is not good.
Lost someone very close who was told she had a small lump in her breast. Nothing serious according to the Dr., should be taken care of with a mastectomy and some chemo. A few weeks later she went in to get some X-rays on another matter...
Doctor left a message for her on her message machine telling her the cancer had spread to her bones and she was stage 4. It was too late for chemo/radiation....bones were like swiss cheese.
She died three months later.
Lost someone very close who was told she had a small lump in her breast. Nothing serious according to the Dr., should be taken care of with a mastectomy and some chemo. A few weeks later she went in to get some X-rays on another matter...
Doctor left a message for her on her message machine telling her the cancer had spread to her bones and she was stage 4. It was too late for chemo/radiation....bones were like swiss cheese.
She died three months later.
When dealing with cancer, get as many opinions as you can because some doctors dismiss shit as not being serious when it in fact is. happened to my mom.
Nobody on an internet forum can give you a time table on death though. Everyone is different and respond different to all the treatments.
I know someone who is young and has skin cancer in her calf. her life is a bitch and she is down, but I think she'll make it even though she says she only has a 15% chance at it.
Good luck.
Nobody on an internet forum can give you a time table on death though. Everyone is different and respond different to all the treatments.
I know someone who is young and has skin cancer in her calf. her life is a bitch and she is down, but I think she'll make it even though she says she only has a 15% chance at it.
Good luck.
what type of breast cancer does she have? I am assuming invasive ductal however there are other types (i.e. lobular, tubular, metaplastic, medullary etc.).
Cancer in her blood? Does that mean she had sentinel lymph nodes that were positive? Where else was the cancer located? In her blood is very vague.
Her other surgeries were lumpectomies? and this current one will be a mastectomy?
Cancer in her blood? Does that mean she had sentinel lymph nodes that were positive? Where else was the cancer located? In her blood is very vague.
Her other surgeries were lumpectomies? and this current one will be a mastectomy?
Dude brutal story...
Lost my mom to ovarian cancer. Doc went to do hysterectomy and they had the oncologist on site. Decided to not get it all while she was already open due to reasons i still will never know.
Probably could have got it all but by the time the first surgery healed and she could have went for another surgery it had already spread. She died before 50.
I know you don't like me but thats still sad.
Thats what my mom would have died of if she didn't get some different opinions because the first doctor she saw just dismissed as nothing but she learned from my grandma's mistake.
My mom was around 50 when all this bullshit happened. just sucks all around.
Well ROUGH guidelines for invasive (I am assuming ductal) ductal carcinoma of the breast with positive nodes and distant spread gives a 5 year survival of about 20 percent which obviously is not very good.
As for ovarian cancer, that is a horrible cancer. Most of the time ovarian cancer is found it has spread and the person is in deep trouble. Ovarian cancer is one that is found late and kills. As opposed to most cervical, endometrial, and even breast which can usually be contained and treated, ovarian is not this way.
