Hello Everyone

Also welcome to the site. Perhaps you could read some of the archived posts both in Secondary Breast Cancer and those in Early breast cancer for upliftment. I find this a very positive and supportive site..

I was diagnosed with BC and ABC on the same day in October 2010 so I have not had it return, it had already spread before I knew I had BC!

I've been told to consider it a chronic disease that will always need treatment and thinking this way has helped me. Mets in the bones can be controlled by specific drugs (Zometa, Bondronat and Xgeva) and the pain can be relieved by radiation to painful areas.

I now tell people that I'm living with cancer that can't be cured, but it can be managed and controlled for years and decades. There are women on the American Cancer Discussion Boards in Advanced Breast Cancer who first posted in the early/mid 1990's and they are still posting.

My body will never be the same either, but I say thank you every day for having this chronic disease rather than others such as congestive cardiac disease etc. as we have so many more options for treatment.

My motto is "accept the diagnosis but not the prognosis!"

Welcome once again,

With love,

Joy K