What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
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At the risk of meandering a little, I would like to acknowledge what @"Patti J" has said. I can only speak as someone who was diagnosed and treated for Stage 2 - surgery, chemo and rads and currently, at 12 months post-diagnosis, NED. I cannot speak to the experience of someone who has not had that treatment and has been diagnosed with a cancer that can only be managed rather than treated. (I don't know if that is Patti J's experience or not.) I realise there is a vast difference there and that it is not talked about much. So, one size does definitely not fit all.
Many of us, no matter our staging, given the rate of bc in our communities, have watched a close family member (genetic issue or not) or friend go through this and not survive. Some of us carry the spectre of that person, still grieve for that person, and find it difficult to believe that this is not also our fate - they are with with us through this.
Many of us, no matter our staging, given the rate of bc in our communities, have watched a close family member (genetic issue or not) or friend go through this and not survive. Some of us carry the spectre of that person, still grieve for that person, and find it difficult to believe that this is not also our fate - they are with with us through this.