Statistics Query
I've just read a post & can't find it. I'm still not savvy on this site. My question is what is the re accurence after 5 years, primary or secondary after 5 years? Does anyone have statistics?
Forum Discussion
- Stats and breast cancer can be uneasy bedfellows. Most of all, no statistics tell you where you personally sit - in the 47% or 0.5% of a chance of some specific thing happening. Recurrence can be affected by age, the particulars of your specific cancer (grade, stage, hormone positive etc), lymph node involvement and all of those factors are to some extent variable. Your oncologist can best advise on your case. There’s also blind luck - some people rated at high risk are fine, others who
might reasonably expect to have no more issues, face a recurrence eight or nine years after their first diagnosis. Treatment is getting better but it’s worth remembering that what happens to one person may not happen to another, no matter what the apparent similarities. - I asked my very experienced breast cancer surgeon what the statistics of me surviving to a ripe old age were ( I was 62 at the time) and he said “ if anyone starts talking statistics at you , run a mile”.
I had already read a lot of official stuff about the general 5 and 10 year survival rates for breast cancer ( which are very good) but the problem with those rates is they cover all stages, grades, ages, types etc and everyone is different.
I had stage 2 breast cancer and am content in the knowledge I have a great medical team and am doing everything I can to maximise my chances of survival - but it’s true that following a breast cancer diagnosis many people do “re calibrate” what is important in their life on the basis that they have come face to face with their own mortality.
Take care🌺 - Mum’s oncologist had a link to a tool inputting many factors of her particular cancer type, receptors etc to give 10yr stats depending on what treatments were done in part or all. The only issue is the stats are a guide not a definite, everyone is different, but if you want the stats ask your oncologist about the stats specific to your age and cancer markers, they should have access.
- Thank you. I have received no pathology reporst, no summary, just verbal information, which at the time, was bouncing off my skull, so didnt have time or brain power to ask questions. Now I have a list of questions, but it wont be to my surgeon, but from my GP. I was suppose to have an extended appointment with him and my partner last week, but, because their typist is away sick, they did not have any reports, so I have to wait another week, which is excrutiating, and I dont think its right, I have private health cover, but I reckon this sucks
- The pathology will change again when you have surgery then they will have all the information to determine next course of treatment
Take care - You can ask for a copy of your pathology report but I think the most accurate report will be the post surgery pathology. I actually didn't have to ask for it as my surgeon gave it to me. He even highlighted the most relevant bits and talked me through it. Hope you get the same.
Cant find the link, sorry.Keeping_positive1 said:- @Cora the underlined words "Predict Breast" is the link. Click on that, and it will lead you to the website. Hope that helps you. :)
